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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)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S5W-26981

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 January 2020
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 23 January 2020

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has given further consideration to removing reference to chemical restraint from health and social care standards.

I refer the Member to the answer to question S5W-22466 on
‎ 23 May 2019. The legislation applicable for the use of chemical restraint makes clear that consent is required where an individual has capacity. Where an individual does not have capacity, the use of chemical restraint must only be applied in exceptional circumstances to the benefit of the individual.

The Health and Social Care Standards do not replace or remove the need to comply with legislation, which health and care services are expected to continue to follow. There are no plans to amend the Standards.

All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx

Question reference: S5O-04063

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 January 2020
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 January 2020

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce the number of children across Edinburgh who are living in temporary accommodation.

Question reference: S5W-26940

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 January 2020
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 21 January 2020

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-26324 by Jeane Freeman on 20 November 2019, how much of this additional funding has been claimed by optometrists through the General Ophthalmic Services contract under code 3 in relation to supplementary eye examinations.

Question reference: S5W-26778

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 15 January 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how many additional operations have been carried out under the Waiting Times Improvement Plan.

Question reference: S5W-26782

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 15 January 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have received support for opioid addiction in each year since 2007.

Information Services Division Scotland publish quarterly statistics on treatment waiting times and types of treatment undertaken which shows how many treatments were started in that period. This information is available here - https://www.isdscotland.org/index.asp .

It should be noted, however, that it isn’t possible to say that the number of treatments started equals the number of individuals undertaking them as the same individual may drop-out and re-start a treatment.

Question reference: S5W-26800

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 19 December 2019
Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 14 January 2020

To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that the recording of the use of restraint in NHS settings should be mandatory.

Health Boards in Scotland have a duty to ensure that they have policies in place covering all forms of restrictive practice and that all staff receive appropriate training.

It is the expectation that episodes of restraint are recorded in clinical case records, that a critical incident review should take place locally if an injury occurs during the use of restraint and that any serious injury is reported to the Mental Welfare Commission. Healthcare staff have a professional responsibility to accurately record all elements of a patient’s care and treatment, including any uses of restraint and the reasons for this.

Question reference: S5W-26765

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 9 January 2020

To ask the Scottish Government what action it takes to (a) raise awareness of and (b) help prevent anaphylaxis, and whether it plans to introduce additional measures.

Community pharmacists provide information, advice or assistance to people on the use of and any risks associated with medicines, and medical devices to prevent harm. This includes people who require an Adrenalin Auto Injector (AAIs) device.

Paediatric allergy services are organised through the Children’s and Young People’s Allergy Network Scotland (CYANS), which is a National Managed Clinical Network that focuses on improving health service provision for children and young people with allergies in Scotland.

NHS Inform provides information about the causes, treatment and prevention of anaphylaxis, including the possibility that someone suffering from anaphylaxis may go into cardiac arrest. We are committed to improving out-hospital cardiac arrest outcomes and, since 2015, over 508,000 people across Scotland have been equipped with cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) skills. National public health campaigns have also been run to raise the overall awareness of using CPR skills.

In wider terms the Scottish Government is taking action to prevent anaphylaxis, for example in a move towards the introduction of full ingredient listing, with allergens emphasised, for foods sold on a Prepacked for Direct Sale basis, Food Standards Scotland is currently undertaking public consultation to inform the development of draft regulations, supporting technical guidance and a robust impact assessment for new Scottish regulations that are due to come into force in Autumn 2021.

Question reference: S5W-26763

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 9 January 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) adults and (b) children have been treated for anaphylaxis in each year since 2007.

Treatment for anaphylaxis may take place in primary care, in accident and emergency departments and in hospitals. Statistics provided by ISD shows the number of patients aged (a) under 16 years and (b) 16 years and over, who were discharged from hospital following treatment for anaphylaxis.

Table 1: Patients treated in hospital for a diagnosis of anaphylaxis in NHS Scotland; 2007 to 2018

Calendar Year	Patients:
Calendar Year	Aged under 16yrs	Aged 16yrs and over
2007	60	321
2008	63	356
2009	53	332
2010	67	330
2011	60	347
2012	76	289
2013	59	309
2014	69	327
2015	103	320
2016	78	304
2017	107	312
2018	93	332

Question reference: S5W-26762

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 9 January 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures there is a consistent approach across NHS boards in the treatment and support of people with anaphylaxis.

Question reference: S5W-26784

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2019
Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 9 January 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how many public inquiries it has announced in each year since 2007, broken down by the cost of each inquiry.

Listed below are the six public inquiries constituted under the Inquiries Act 2005 since 2007. There have been a variety of other reviews and non-statutory inquiries for which costs are not held centrally.

Public Inquiry	Cost
ICL Stockline Set up February 2008, reported July 2009 (one year, five months).	£1.91 million
Fingerprint (Shirley McKie) Set up March 2008, reported December 2011 (three years, nine months).	£4.75 million
Vale of Leven (C Difficile) Set up January 2007, reported November 2014 (seven years, ten months).	£10.77 million
Penrose (Hepatitis C) Set up April 2008, reported March 2015 (six years, eleven months).	£12.10 million
Edinburgh Tram Inquiry Set up June 2014 Ongoing	(Up to 31 December 2019) £10.72 million
Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry Set up October 2015 Ongoing	(Up to 30September 2019) £27.00 million

All costs rounded to the nearest £10,000

There are currently two public inquiries ongoing: the Edinburgh Tram Inquiry and the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, the figures shown are the most up to date available.

Ongoing information can be found in the following links :

http://www.edinburghtraminquiry.org/

https://www.childabuseinquiry.scot/about-us/costs/ .