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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: S6T-01982

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 13 May 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 May 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that the Scottish Men's Sheds Association could collapse due to the withdrawal of Scottish Government funding.

Question reference: S6O-03446

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 May 2024

To ask the Scottish Government when it last met with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Question reference: S6W-26906

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 April 2024
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 2 May 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how many people that require social care are currently receiving this support in inappropriate hospital stays or out-of-area placements, and what its position is on whether this reflects the commitment in the Coming Home Implementation programme to greatly reduce delayed discharges and inappropriate out-of-area placements for adults with learning disabilities and complex care needs by March 2024.

Scottish Government continue to implement the actions in the Coming Home Implementation Report, and work with COSLA to seek progress across the country. Local public bodies have the statutory responsibility for this and delivery rests with them – however we know this work takes time. We want people to be supported in a home that is right for them, which often and rightly requires a bespoke design and build, as well as recruitment and training of a care team tailored to the person.

Scottish Ministers are confident that the national work is putting in place improved systems and structures locally which are required to achieve real change. We launched new national Dynamic Support Registers in May 2023, which provide a mechanism for a new national data collection on people with learning disabilities and complex care needs.

This data is collected and published by Public Health Scotland (PHS) with the first report published in November 2023. This is a significant step forward that provides clarity on the number of people with learning disabilities and complex care needs who are in hospital and in out-of-area placements.

The latest Public Health Scotland publication reports on the census point of 28 September 2023. At that time, there were 1,243 people on the Dynamic Support Register of which, there were 86 delayed discharges and 130 out-of-area placements. Given this was the first publication of this data, care needs to be taken in early interpretation as data collection process embed and mature.

A further publication of updated figures taken from a census point of 28 March 2024 will be published by PHS on 28 May 2024.

The full November PHS report is available on the PHS website: Insights into learning disabilities and complex needs: statistics for Scotland - 28 November 2023 - Insights into learning disabilities and complex needs: statistics for Scotland - Publications - Public Health Scotland .

Question reference: S6O-03381

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 April 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 May 2024

To ask the Scottish Government when it last met with Renfrewshire Health and Social Care Partnership.

Question reference: S6O-03247

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the implementation of the Immediate Priorities Plan developed with disabled people’s organisations.

Question reference: S6W-26057

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S6W-25188

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 12 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, since the introduction of annual health checks for adults with a learning disability in May 2022, what percentage of eligible adults have received such a health check.

Question reference: S6W-25185

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 12 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, since the introduction of annual health checks for adults with a learning disability in May 2022, how many adults have been offered such a health check.

This information is not currently collected by the Scottish Government. The National Directions for Annual Health Checks state that all eligible people with a learning disability should be offered an annual health check by 31 March 2024. The Scottish Government will be asking Health Boards to report on numbers of people offered annual health checks and number of health checks received after this date.

Question reference: S6W-25186

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 12 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, since the introduction of annual health checks for adults with a learning disability in May 2022, how many adults have received such a health check.

Question reference: S6W-25187

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 12 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, since the introduction of annual health checks for adults with a learning disability in May 2022, how many adults had received such a health check by 31 March 2023.