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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: S5W-20134

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 November 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 4 December 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many debt cases the Accountant in Bankruptcy has dealt with for (a) businesses and (b) individuals in each of the last five years.

Corporate insolvency is largely reserved – although the Agency records numbers of receiverships and liquidations, the Agency does not deal with such cases itself.

Personal insolvency debt cases include the three statutory debt management and debt relief options - bankruptcy, Protected Trust Deeds (PTDs) and the Debt Arrangement Scheme (DAS). These cases generally relate to individuals, but include certain trading entities including unincorporated bodies, partnerships and sole traders. Details on case volumes is provided in the Agency’s Annual Report available on its website - www.aib.gov.uk .

For ease, summarised data on the numbers of new cases beginning in each year is set out in the following table:

Year	Bankruptcies awarded	PTDs	DPPs approved	Total
2017-18	4,644	5,958	2,318	13,766
2016-17	4,562	5,470	2,233	13,167
2015-16	3,765	4,709	2,041	11,416
2014-15	6,730	4,437	4,156	16,172
2013-14	7,112	6,681	4,580	17,926

Question reference: S5W-20027

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2018
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 December 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-19483 by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 November 2018, how much vaccine will be provided for the 2018-19 flu season.

Question reference: S5W-20136

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 November 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 4 December 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what value of debts has been repaid to the Accountant in Bankruptcy by (a) businesses and (b) individuals in each of the last five years.

Corporate insolvency is largely reserved – although the Agency records numbers of receiverships and liquidations, the Agency does not deal with such cases itself.

Details of the returns to creditors from the statutory debt management and relief products overseen by the Agency are set out in the Agency’s Annual Report available on its website at www.aib.gov.uk . These cases generally relate to individuals, but include certain trading entities including unincorporated bodies, partnerships and sole traders. Comparable data is not available before 2015-16.

Year	Amount (£m)
2017-18	74.0
2016-17	83.7
2015-16	83.7

Question reference: S5W-20012

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2018
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 December 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-19483 by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 November 2018, how much flu vaccine has been purchased using the additional funding and when this will be made available for use.

Question reference: S5W-20130

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 November 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 4 December 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many staff the Accountant in Bankruptcy (a) currently employs and (b) has employed in each of the last five years, broken down by salary banding.

FTE Staff Numbers are provided in the annual reports published by Accountant in Bankruptcy on its web-site – www.aib.gov.uk

For ease of reference, the collated information is set out in the following table - the numbers quoted relate to the position as at 31 March.

Year	Pay band A	Pay band B	Pay band C	Contingent	SCS	Head-Count	Full time equivalent
2017-18	44	78	6	2	1	131	113.6*
2016-17	50	84	5	5	1	145	124.4*
2015-16	52	86	6	8	2	154	127.3
2014-15	55	88	7	13	2	165	133.6
2013-14	67	65	7	4	2	145	133.4

*includes one inward loan which is paid through AiB payroll.

Question reference: S5W-20011

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2018
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 December 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many people it expects to be vaccinated in the 2018-19 flu season, and by what date the programme will be completed.

Question reference: S5W-20129

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 November 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 4 December 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how much the Accountant in Bankruptcy has charged in fees in each of the last five years.

The amounts are set out in the following table.

Year	Amount (£m)
2017-18	12.3
2016-17	12.5
2015-16	12.7
2014-15	13.4
2013-14	11.7

A detailed breakdown of the Agency’s income is publicly available in the annual reports published by Accountant in Bankruptcy on its web-site – www.aib.gov.uk . From this it can be seen that the largest element of the above are costs involved in the administration of individual cases, reclaimed from those cases.

Question reference: S5W-20135

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 November 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 4 December 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many individual cases the Accountant in Bankruptcy has dealt with in each of the last five years, broken down by type of debt action, such as bankruptcy or protected trust deeds.

Question reference: S5W-20013

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2018
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 December 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) people over 65, (b) two- to five-year-old children and (c) people with an eligible health condition (i) have received and (ii) are yet to receive the 2018-19 flu vaccine.

Question reference: S5W-20080

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 November 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 4 December 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) female and (b) male retail apprenticeships there have been in each of the last five years.

Year	Female	Male	Total
2017-18	906	750	1,656
2016-17	1,078	940	2,018
2015-16	1,139	892	2,031
2014-15	1,094	909	2,003
2013-14	1,115	827	1,942