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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)
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Question reference: S6O-01023

Asked by: Stephanie Callaghan, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 April 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 4 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how much it will spend per head of the population on health in the current financial year.

Question reference: S6F-01042

Asked by: Stephanie Callaghan, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 25 April 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 April 2022

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to the Climate Changemakers impact report from the Scottish Children’s Parliament.

Question reference: S6W-07860

Asked by: Stephanie Callaghan, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 April 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 25 April 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the development and wellbeing assessment tool currently being piloted by South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership could be a viable and cost-effective option to reduce screening waiting times for young people with suspected neurodevelopmental conditions.

The Scottish Government’s understanding is that the wellbeing assessment tool being piloted by South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership called the Autism Resource Co-ordination Hub (ARCH), is a support service for children, young people, adults and their families. It is not intended to replace services already provided by health, education or social work with regard to assessment, diagnosis or treatment of neurodevelopmental conditions.

The Scottish Government is committed to implementing the National Neurodevelopmental Specification: Principles and Standards of Care for Children and Young People, published in September 2021, which specifies service standards that all children’s services should follow, to ensure access to support is effective and consistent across Scotland. The ARCH service complements existing services and the Principles and Standards set out in the Neurodevelopmental Specification by providing the support provided by universal services, and the neurodevelopmental assessment pathway provided by NHS Lanarkshire community paediatrics and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

To support improvements across Scotland, £3.06 million was allocated to NHS Boards in 2021-22 to build professional capacity within Boards to support children and young people with neurodevelopmental support needs.

In March 2022, Scottish Government also provided over £750,000 to five local authority areas to run tests of change on the implementation of the Neurodevelopmental Specification. These tests will run over the next six months and will provide learning and evaluation to be shared across other local authorities and health board areas to inform and assist national implementation of the Specification.

Question reference: S6O-01019

Asked by: Stephanie Callaghan, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 April 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 April 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to extend the NHS Scotland COVID Status app to 12- to 15-year-olds in order to support the increasing number of families that are returning to international travel.

Question reference: S6W-07607

Asked by: Stephanie Callaghan, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 20 April 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what biodiversity goals it is considering in advance of the UN Biodiversity Conference in April 2022.

Our new biodiversity strategy will be published in October 2022. This will set out how we will achieve our goal of preventing further extinctions of wildlife and halting declines by 2030, and making significant progress in restoring Scotland's natural environment by 2045. We will publish a consultation on the strategy in May 2022.

COP 15 in Kunming provides a major opportunity for the world to commit to bold action to restore our natural environment, and, through the Edinburgh Process and Edinburgh Declaration, which is now supported by 235 administrations around the world, we are doing what we can to secure a strong outcome.

Question reference: S6W-07220

Asked by: Stephanie Callaghan, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that all autistic people are made fully aware of any adjustments or adaptations that are available to them in COVID-19 vaccination centres.

I refer the member to the answer to earlier questions: S6W-06594, S6W-06595 on 1 March 2022.

Guidance will be included on vaccination appointment letters, signposting people to additional support should it be required. Additionally, if people need any additional support at their vaccine appointment, they can call the National Vaccination Helpline on 0800 030 8013 to discuss. Information on the COVID-19 vaccine is available in a range of different formats on NHS Inform , including in audio, easy read and large print. Scottish Government continues to engage regularly with key autism stakeholders including the National Autistic Society and Scottish Autism around our approach to managing COVID-19 and its associated harms .

All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers

Question reference: S6W-07324

Asked by: Stephanie Callaghan, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 28 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what the latest known levels of tuition fees are for a first full-time degree in Scotland, and what information it has on how this compares with (a) England and (b) Wales.

Question reference: S6O-00933

Asked by: Stephanie Callaghan, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether the number of people in hospital with COVID-19 recently reaching the highest level since the pandemic began has impacted on its modelling and risk assessment regarding the ending of free testing for the general population from 30 April.

Question reference: S6O-00905

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S6O-00829

Asked by: Stephanie Callaghan, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the progress it is making to reduce waiting times for children's mental health services.