- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 1 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when it last met with the Royal College of General Practitioners, and what was discussed.
Answer
The Scottish Government last met the Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) on 18 May 2023.
The meeting covered:
- The Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy;
- General Practice Protected Learning Time;
- The General Practice Access Group;
- The NHS National Conversation; and
- The RCGP Conference 2023
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many applications to the Hydrogen Innovation Scheme were (a) received and (b) successful, and what continued engagement and support has been offered to unsuccessful applications in relation to future or alternative funding streams.
Answer
The Hydrogen Innovation Scheme received a total of 74 applications with 32 successful projects offered grant funding.
Unsuccessful applicants to the scheme were directed to potential alternative sources of assistance, including available business grants and other funding calls and the SME Loan and Cashback Scheme which provides interest free loans (from £1,000 up to £100,000) to small and medium sized Scotland based businesses.
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 1 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it can detail when the short-life working group, established by the Managed Service Network for Children and Young People with Cancer (MSN CYPC) to carry out a robust workforce review and mapping exercise of posts across the network, (a) last met and (b) will next meet.
Answer
The workforce short life working group set up through the Managed Service Network for Children and Young People with Cancer (MSN CYPC) last met on 5 April 2023 and will next meet on week commencing 19 June 2023.
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Christina McKelvie on 1 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when the Creative Industries Leadership Group last met, and when it next plans to meet.
Answer
The Creative Industries Leadership Group (CILG) last met on 8 June 2022. As of Summer 2022, the work of CILG has been paused and will be addressed as part of a wider strategic review of stakeholder engagement that is being undertaken by culture officials.
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when each of the 32 winning projects of the Hydrogen Innovation Scheme, announced on 18 May 2023, received their funding.
Answer
The successful Hydrogen Innovation Scheme applicants were informed throughout April and May 2023. All grants are paid in arrears, and will be awarded on successful completion of key project milestones.
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of the support that applicants receive when applying to the Hydrogen Innovation Scheme, including any targeted support offered to small and medium-sized enterprises.
Answer
Application guidance was made available to all applicants to the Hydrogen Innovation Scheme via the Scottish Government’s Website. In partnership with Energy Technology Partnership and the Enterprise Agencies, the Scottish Government hosted a webinar on 5 July 2022 to provide further guidance to prospective applicants and to direct them to additional sources of support. All applicants to the scheme were able to seek additional support from Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, South of Scotland Enterprise and/or the Energy Technology Partnership.
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 1 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what funding has been granted to the short-life working group, established by the Managed Service Network for Children and Young People with Cancer (MSN CYPC) to carry out a robust workforce review and mapping exercise of posts across the network.
Answer
The Managed Service Network for Children and Young People with Cancer (MSN CYPC), has not received any additional funding from Scottish Government to carry out a robust workforce review and mapping exercise of posts across the network. The exercise is being completed with support from the Scottish Cancer Network, using existing resources.
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 25 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Gillian Martin on 1 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-17950 by Gillian Martin on 23 May 2023, on what date it will next meet with Danish officials; what advice and knowledge it received from Danish officials at previous meetings regarding community and co-operative ownership, and what actions and policy decisions it has taken based on any such advice.
Answer
In June 2022, Scottish Government officials discussed the subject of community and co-operative ownership with Danish officials in the context of heat network ownership models, where officials received a presentation outlining different ownership types and their relative proportions in the Danish market whilst noting that community owned co-operative heat networks are responsible for a small proportion of delivered heat compared to larger municipally owned heat networks in Denmark. No further discussions have been held on the subject of community or co-operative ownership since.
Scottish Government officials will be meeting Danish officials in June 2023 to review activity taken place during the past financial year under the Memorandum of Understanding.
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 1 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when Trucheck cancer-detecting blood tests, which reportedly have 92% to 93.1% accuracy, will be made available on the NHS.
Answer
Any healthcare products being used by NHS Scotland require the undertaking of due diligence to ensure the safety of everyone concerned. This involves seeking clinical advice and undertaking a full health technology assessment (HTA).
In the first instance, all health technologies must be registered with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) before being placed on the market.
Following that, we refer enquiries around health technologies to the Scottish Health Technologies Group (SHTG), who are part of Healthcare Improvement Scotland. SHTG undertake HTAs, providing evidence support and advice on the use of new and existing health technologies. This includes analysing the benefits, costs, ease of implementation as well as considering any unintended clinical consequences which may arise.
It is ultimately for the 14 Territorial Health Boards across Scotland to decide whether to procure and apply this intervention as part of their treatment for patients. Health Boards receive support from Healthcare Improvement Scotland and SHTG in making such decisions.
The SHTG has not provided advice on the use of Trucheck to date.
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Michael Matheson on 1 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it can detail the membership of the short-life working group, established by the Managed Service Network for Children and Young People with Cancer (MSN CYPC) to carry out a robust workforce review and mapping exercise of posts across the network.
Answer
Membership of the workforce short life working group established by the Managed Service Network for Children and Young People with Cancer (MSN CYPC), includes representatives from the MSN CYPC, Scottish Cancer Network, Scottish Government, NHS Tayside (Finance; HR; Health and Staffside representative) NHS National Services Scotland (Scottish Cancer Network; HR) and The Teenage Cancer Trust.