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In October 2016, the Minister for Public Health and Sport wrote to NHS Board Chief Executives to provide details as to what mortuary facilities they are responsible for and whether their facilities comply with the current guidance on mortuary provision. Furthermore, the letter noted that many small hospitals have no mortuary facility but may have a body storage area. In these instances the Minister asked for reassurance that appropriate measures are in place to ensure suitable access and viewing arrangements are made with another facility (NHS, Local Authority or a local undertaker).

Twelve of the 14 territorial Health Boards generally reported no issues regarding their mortuary provision and they provided assurance of adequate body storage facilities and either on-site viewing facilities or arrangements with local funeral directors or other hospitals/facilities for viewings. The two remaining Boards (NHS Highland and NHS Tayside) highlighted some issues that they were managing, but they provided plans as to how they would address these issues.

The 2005 universal core programme for child health screening and surveillance, Health for all Children 4, was supplemented with A New Look at Hall 4: the Early Years in 2011 and with Guidance on the 27-30 month child health review in 2012.

Guidance on health reviews and visits in the early years was refreshed in the Universal Health Visiting Pathway in Scotland: Pre-Birth to Pre-School, published in October 2015. The programme consists of 11 home visits to all families - 8 within the first year of life and 3 Child Health Reviews between 13 months, 27-30 months and 4-5 years.

In the light of this work and ongoing implementation, there are no current plans for review.

Non-domestic rate bills for individual properties are arrived at after the application of any eligible reliefs by local Councils. It is therefore not possible to give the breakdown requested of net bills at this point.

(a) The following table details the complete yearly costs held by the Scottish Government.

Total costs include staff salaries, employer's contributions, fuel, vehicle maintenance, private hire and travel and subsistence.

(b) & (c) All domestic rail and flight costs are routinely published on the Scottish Government website. Please note these publications are only available online from 2007 onwards:

Costs from 2007 - May 2016 can be found at:

http://www.gov.scot/About/People/14944/travel

Costs from May 2016 onwards can be found at:

https://beta.gov.scot/publications/?term=Ministerial&publicationTypes=transparency_data

(d) Other travel costs:

A breakdown of Overseas visits from 1999 – 2014 can be found at:

http://www.gov.scot/About/People/14944/travel/visitsoverseas

Overseas travel costs from 2015 – 2016 can be found at:

http://www.gov.scot/About/People/14944/travel/visitsoverseas/visitsoverseas

Overseas travel costs from May 2016 onwards can be found at:

https://beta.gov.scot/publications/?term=Ministerial&publicationTypes=transparency_data

Other travel costs also include ferry travel and taxi travel. Please note these publications are only available from 2009 onwards.

Costs from 2009 – May 2016 can be found at:

http://www.gov.scot/About/People/14944/travel

Costs from May 2016 onwards can be found at:

https://beta.gov.scot/publications/?term=Ministerial&publicationTypes=transparency_data

The vehicle models utilised by the Government Car Service fleet since 2001 are set out in the following table:

(1) Information is not held for the period prior to 2001.

(2) During each year there are a number of purchases and disposals. We generally hold an operation fleet of between 22 and 25 vehicles.

The National Prisoner Health Network (NPHN) 2016 report “Brain Injury and Offending” identified two screening tools that may be appropriate for use in Scottish prisons. A study is currently underway to evaluate these tools. The NPHN report is available at: http://www.nphn.scot.nhs.uk/nphn-brain-injury-and-offending-final-report-publication/

This information is not held centrally.

The National Prisoner Heath Network 2016 report ‘’Brain Injury and Offending’’ suggests a number of recommendations for NHS Boards. We expect these to be considered and acted on as appropriate.

This information is not held centrally.