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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.

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Question reference: S6W-14352

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 27 February 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many executive agencies there are; how (a) much funding and (b) many staff each has in 2022-23, and in which year each was established.

There are 10 executive agencies. Please see the following table for executive agencies contains year of establishment, funding and staff numbers.

Public Body	Year of establishment	Funding 2022-23	Staff numbers Q3 2022
Accountant in Bankruptcy	1985	£2,455,000	119
Disclosure Scotland	2009	£24,347,000	362
Education Scotland	2011	£28,734,000	343
Forestry and Land Scotland	2019	£27,200,000	1081
Scottish Forestry	2019	£90,863,000	205
Scottish Prison Service	1993	£476,407,000	4,523
Scottish Public Pensions Agency	1993	£28,279,000	323
Social Security Scotland	2018	£310,900,000	3,803
Student Awards Agency for Scotland	1994	£14,752,000	252
Transport Scotland	2006	£3,214,840,000 (of which £29,977,00 is Agency Administration)	545

Question reference: S6W-14400

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 21 February 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what (a) the Scottish Ambulance Service and (b) NHS24 has done to assess the flow of patients with diabetes using their services out of hours, and what activity has arisen from any such assessments.

As part of the Scottish Diabetes Group, we have established work streams to identify efficiencies and opportunities within the Scottish Ambulance Service. This work is still in very early stages, however there is an established process in NHS Fife and NHS Grampian that links Scottish Ambulance Service (SAS) data from the patient report form with SCI-Diabetes. This system ensures local diabetes teams have information about patients presenting to SAS with hypoglycaemic episode, in order to provide rapid, informed and appropriate follow up care. We are working closely with SAS and NHS Boards to further increase this connection across Scotland.

The Scottish Diabetes Group will take forward actions to improve services provided by NHS24 for people living with diabetes in the next year.

Question reference: S6W-14587

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 February 2023
Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 21 February 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-13427 by Lorna Slater on 19 January 2023, what further work is currently underway to ensure that the interactions between minimum unit pricing and the Deposit Return Scheme are understood, and what discussions it has had with the industry on this issue.

Scottish Government officials are undertaking work to ensure that the interactions between Minimum Unit Price and the Deposit Return Scheme are fully understood. This work includes engagement with stakeholders.

For example, a planned evaluation of the Deposit Return Scheme will explore consumer behaviours prior to the scheme’s introduction, a year after implementation and two years after implementation.

Question reference: S6W-14404

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 17 February 2023

To ask the Scottish Government which NHS boards include patient-reported outcomes as part of their clinical consultations, with a view to discussing emotional health.

Question reference: S6W-14424

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 27 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 10 February 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what it has done to ensure that healthcare professionals, SCI-Diabetes and e-health teams work collaboratively to ensure that changes implemented in SCI-Diabetes support clinical care and drive improvement in diabetes care.

The SCI-Diabetes eHealth Clinical Lead provides regular updates to the Scottish Diabetes Group and Managed Clinical Networks in order to ensure that the clinical community is aware of the functionality of the dashboard and how they can work together to continuously improve it.

Any individual healthcare professional or clinical team can submit a change request to SCI-Diabetes team. Any change request made to the SCI-Diabetes system must demonstrate how the change will support clinical care and improve patient care more broadly.

Question reference: S6W-14425

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 27 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 10 February 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to promote and review the usage of the diabetes dashboard.

Question reference: S6W-14514

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 27 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 10 February 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-13502 by Humza Yousaf on 26 January 2023, how much it has spent on those areas in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S6W-14403

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 9 February 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has completed work with (a) Diabetes Scotland and (b) people living with diabetes to establish where any additional support is required, and how best this could be delivered.

Officials meet regularly with Diabetes Scotland in order to identify areas of shared interest and opportunities for collaboration. Representatives from Diabetes Scotland sit on the Scottish Diabetes Group (SDG) and its sub-groups.

The Scottish Government has funded the ALLIANCE to develop a network of people living with diabetes. The experience of people within this network is key to the success of implementing the Diabetes Improvement Plan.

People living with diabetes are represented on SDG sub-groups and are co-producing specific pieces of work such as the diabetes education pathways and prescribing guidelines.

Question reference: S6W-14417

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 9 February 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to support NHS boards to optimise diabetes in-patient care in hospitals and reduce any avoidable adverse events.

As part of the Scottish Diabetes Group (SDG), we have an inpatient sub-group, with a focus on improving diabetes care in hospitals.

The inpatient group, with support from the SDG, will carry out a national inpatient audit this year. The purpose of the audit is to review the diabetes care currently being provided in hospitals The data will also highlight any areas for improvement and help NHS Boards to make any necessary improvements to the care and treatment of people living with diabetes in hospitals.

Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s professional education toolkit ‘Think, Check, Act’ has also been reviewed and was updated in December 2022. We are continuing to work with NHS Boards, NHS Education for Scotland and other key stakeholders to embed Diabetes ‘Think, Check, Act’ modules into healthcare professional education to ensure that people with diabetes have access to the best possible care and treatment whilst they are in hospital.

Question reference: S6W-14394

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 27 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 9 February 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of people with type 1 diabetes have had an average blood glucose (sugar) level (HbA1c) greater than 75mmol/l and a systolic blood pressure over 130 mmHg, in each year since 2007.