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The information requested is management information and is not currently published, however, Public Health Scotland produce a weekly COVID-19 Statistical Report, with the most recent version being published on Wednesday 19 January. This report provides a range of information including the number of LFDs reported through various channels in Scotland.

The total number of mental health and learning disability beds within the NHS Scotland estate each of the last five years was:

Correspondence from MSPs is routinely answered by Scottish Government Cabinet Secretaries and Ministers. The Health and Social Care portfolio has experienced a huge and unprecedented increase in correspondence over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic. In order for MSPs to receive timely responses, much of the correspondence previously signed by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care and Minister for Public Health, Women’s Health and Sport is being reviewed on their behalf by Scottish Government Deputy Directors. This remains under review and normal process will resume when volumes allow for timely responses.

The Scottish Government aim to respond to ministerial correspondence within 20 working days. Performance is monitored at local and corporate levels of government.

Anonymous Voter Registration is available to anyone meeting certain statutory requirements where, if their name or address were listed on the electoral register, their safety would be at risk (or where the safety of other people at the same address as them would be at risk).

An anonymously registered elector has the same options for voting at an election as other electors. They can vote in person at a polling station or they can apply to vote by post or by proxy.

If they choose to vote in person, they will receive a poll card before the election. The poll card will be sent in a covering envelope. An anonymously registered elector must take this poll card to the polling station and will not be able to vote without it.

If the elector wants to vote by post or by proxy, they can ask the Electoral Registration Officer who will provide them with an application form which can also be downloaded from electoralcommission.org.uk/i-am-a/voter

Further information on anonymous registration can be found in the following guidance which was produced in partnership between the Electoral Commission and Scottish Women’s Aid: ‘Anonymous registration: Supporting survivors of domestic abuse to register to vote’

We are working with local authority partners to develop a fully funded free school milk scheme for primary age pupils as well as a free school milk scheme pilot for secondary age young people. Existing subsidy arrangements will continue for another year to ensure that local authorities can continue to access subsidy towards their local school milk schemes while the new scheme is being developed.

We are working with local authority partners to develop a fully funded free school milk scheme for all children in primary schools as well as a free school milk scheme pilot in secondary schools.

Following a search of the information held on the Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) portal, there have been no contracts awarded to Amazon during financial year 2020-21 by any Scottish Public buying organisation. This information is already in the public domain and available on the internet by searching www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk . The PCS portal is a national advertising website provided by the Scottish Government as a one-stop shop for suppliers to access Scottish public sector contract opportunities.

The Scottish Government has a corporate correspondence system. Correspondence addressed to Ministers and requiring a response is added to the system on receipt.

Delayed discharge data can be broken down by age, gender and specialty of treatment. Ethnicity and disability is not routinely collected although there is potential for ethnicity to be identified through linked data.