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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S6W-18534

Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 02 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Natalie Don on 21 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many free school breakfasts it has funded in the past year.

Question reference: S6W-18996

Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 21 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting the recruitment of specialists in menopause.

Question reference: S6W-18779

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 21 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether the ability for local services to offer to their patients new nationally-consistent pathways for at-home monitoring of a greater range of long term conditions such as COPD, heart failure and asthma exists.

Further pathways for prostate cancer, asthma, heart failure and pulmonary disease are in development. A National Procurement exercise, concluded in September 2021, resulted in a 5-year contract awarded to Inhealthcare Ltd (IHC) for a national asynchronous communication platform. The purpose of this contract is to enable a significant expansion of remote health pathways within Board areas and to support the provision of equitable access to these services for all NHS Boards.

Question reference: S6W-18485

Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 21 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) flu, (b) DTaP/IPV, (c) MMR, (d) Td/IPV, (e) MenACWY, (f) HPV and (g) COVID-19 vaccines have been distributed to people living in Scotland in each year since 2018-19.

The number of vaccines distributed to people living in Scotland for the outlined immunisation programmes is monitored by Public Health Scotland. The information requested is not held centrally. Vaccination statistics in Scotland are publicly reported as outlined below. Due to differences in eligibility since 2018-19 and changed reporting systems used across programmes, it is not possible to directly compare uptake percentages between years.

(a) Flu - Flu & COVID vaccinations

(b) DTaP/IPV, (c) MMR https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/show-all-releases?id=20562

(d) Td/IPV, (e) MenACWY, https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/teenage-booster-immunisation-statistics-scotland/

(f) HPV : https://www.publichealthscotland.scot/publications/hpv-immunisation-statistics-scotland/ and HPV vaccination statistics for men who have sex with men, Scotland - 5 year period ending 30 June 2022 - HPV vaccination statistics for men who have sex with men, Scotland - Publications - Public Health Scotland

(g) COVID-19 Archived COVID-19 Vaccination in Scotland up to September 2022

Question reference: S6W-18744

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 21 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what consideration was given to the needs of blind or partially sighted people during the creation of the Deposit Return Scheme.

Question reference: S6W-18794

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 21 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Care in the Digital Age: Delivery Plan 2022-23, whether it has put in place the Community Health Index (CHI).

The Community Health Index (CHI) has been in place since the 1970s. We are in the process of modernising and upgrading the system that runs the CHI, which acts as the master patient index for the whole of the NHS. As such, the new CHI system requires careful implementation to safely and seamlessly join up hundreds of data flows. It is now in limited use for some elements of health data. The new system is expected to be fully operational in Autumn 2023.

Question reference: S6W-18843

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 21 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what investigations National Records of Scotland has undertaken to determine whether any of the buildings that it manages were fitted with reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete, and what the cost was of conducting any necessary repairs, broken down by building.

Question reference: S6W-18835

Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 21 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-11285 by Keith Brown on 25 October 2022, whether it will provide an update on its plans to create a Peace Institute by 2022, and what the (a) location, (b) cost and (c) remit of this body will be.

Question reference: S6W-18745

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 21 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether officials have been set a deadline regarding their communication of the amount of statutory funding granted to the hospice sector.

It is the responsibility of Integration Joint Boards (IJBs) to plan and commission adult palliative and end of life care services for their areas using the integrated budgets under their control. My officials are therefore engaged with Health and Social Care Partnerships and Scottish hospice sector representatives in relation to issues around funding.

I am meeting with the Scottish Hospice Leadership Group and Hospice UK on 13 September, and my officials continue to communicate and engage with hospice representatives meantime.

Question reference: S6W-19156

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Natalie Don on 21 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government which local authorities currently employ a Childminding Development Officer.

Childminding Development Officers (CDOs) are employees of the Scottish Childminding Association (SCMA) who work with Local Authorities where contracts exist between the relevant Local Authority and the SCMA.

The SCMA currently employ 9 CDOs, two of whom are Senior CDOs, spanning 9 Local Authority areas, including; Aberdeen, Falkirk, Fife, Glasgow, North Lanarkshire, Scottish Borders, South Lanarkshire, Stirling and West Lothian.