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This includes the organisation that carried out the analysis and the cost.

This information is not currently collected centrally by Information Services Division.

The National Infertility Group was set up, in April 2010, to address the inequity of access to IVF treatment across Scotland. The Group will consider current waiting times in NHS Boards for IVF treatment, and will submit its report to Ministers by the end of December 2012.

National guidelines were developed by the Expert Advisory Group on Infertility Services in Scotland (EAGISS) in 2000. These guidelines were subsequently reviewed, and in 2007, further recommendations were made on age and time between treatments.

All NHS Boards in Scotland use these guidelines, but variations in provision and waiting times do exist. The National Infertility Group was set up, in April 2010, to address this inequity of access to IVF treatment across Scotland, and will submit its final report to Ministers by the end of December 2012.

The Scottish Government is committed to a maximum 12 month waiting for IVF by 31 March 2015. Funding of £12 million over the next 3 years has been identified to help NHS Boards meet this waiting time.

Justice and Housing officials discuss the matter regularly as part of their responsibilities for policy on housing registered sex offenders.

When a registered sex offender is released from prison, the Scottish Prison Service and the relevant local authorities and health boards, or Special Health Boards, undertake an environmental risk assessment to identify housing-related risks and inform decisions on manageable housing for each offender that will minimise the risks to the community.

This information is not held centrally.

In 2001, the Expert Panel on Sex Offending, chaired by Lady Cosgrove, produced a report Reducing the Risk: Improving the response to sex offending, which contained recommendations to strengthen the measures for protecting communities from sex offenders. The Scottish Government is not aware of any other work that has been undertaken since then on the general suitability of the different types of accommodation available for re-housing of registered sex offenders.

Work, in the form of an environmental risk assessment, is carried out in the case of individual registered sex offenders, where the Responsible Authorities (i.e. local authorities, the police, the Scottish Prison Service and health boards or Special Health Boards) identify a need for it. This work brings together information on the offender, proposed property and nearby households and helps to minimise the risks to the community of housing the offender.

I am responsible for Scottish Government policy on the housing of registered sex offenders.

Local authorities have the power, under section 5 of the 2001 Act, to refer a homeless person to a Registered Social Landlord (RSL) for the RSL to house that person. Where a registered sex offender is homeless, the circumstances of their case might mean that it is appropriate for the local authority to refer them to a RSL for housing.