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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)
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Question reference: S5W-24708

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much each NHS board pays to private contractors for hospital catering services.

The following table details how much NHS board pays to private contractors for hospital catering services; all other hospitals catering costs are covered by the local NHS Board:

NHS Board	Project Name	Annual Cost
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	East Ayrshire Community Hospital	£430,548
NHS Forth Valley	Forth Valley Royal Hospital, Larbert	The cost of catering services is not separately identifiable within the unitary charge
NHS Forth Valley	Clackmannanshire Community Healthcare Centre	The cost of catering services is not separately identifiable within the unitary charge
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	SGH - Geriatric Medicine (Langlands)	The cost of catering services is not separately identifiable within the unitary charge
NHS Highland	New Craigs Hospital	£586,657
NHS Lanarkshire	Hairmyres Hospital	£2,561,722
NHS Lanarkshire	Wishaw General Hospital	£2,775,632
NHS Lothian	Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh (RIE)	£5,500,000
NHS Lothian	Ferryfield House	£440,000
NHS Lothian	Tippethill House Hospital, Bathgate	£405,000
NHS Lothian	Ellen's Glen House	£405,000
NHS Tayside	Carseview Centre	£288,131
NHS Forth Valley	Stirling Care Village Phase 1	The cost of catering services is not separately identifiable within the unitary charge

Question reference: S5W-24764

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 29 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what advice it issues to GPs and pharmacies regarding the supply of hormone replacement therapy and, if it does not currently issue such advice, whether it plans to do so.

The Chief Pharmaceutical Officer for Scotland wrote to all NHS Boards, GPs and community pharmacists (Circular PCA(P) (2019) 18) on 26 August 2019 advising of the latest supply update on all Hormone Replacement Therapy products marketed in the UK.

Any information on current and ongoing supply issues relating to individual drugs or devices is shared by NHS Scotland with the relevant networks within the service to help prescribers and dispensers meet patients’ on-going medical needs. The NHS Scotland Prescribing Advisers’ Network provides support to prescribers on the use of alternative products.

Question reference: S5W-24539

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has provided funding for the Pause Programme in Dundee and, if so, whether it plans to continue to do so in future years.

The Scottish Government has received a funding application from Pause for the Pause Dundee pilot. The grant funding process has not yet been concluded and no funding has been provided by the Scottish Government.

We are committed to working with local authorities and partners to provide support for women with complex and challenging needs who have frequent pregnancies, but whose children are taken into care.

Question reference: S5W-24594

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 28 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether clinical waste will be exported to other countries under its contract with Tradebe.

Question reference: S5W-24593

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 28 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the report in The Guardian on 25 July 2019 regarding hazardous clinical waste originating from the UK that has recently been discovered in Sri Lanka, what information it has regarding whether this includes clinical waste originating from Scotland.

Question reference: S5W-24592

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 28 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what action it has taken in response to the report in the Herald on Sunday on 17 February 2019 that that nearly 30 tonnes of high-risk clinical waste appears to have gone missing.

Question reference: S5W-24595

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 28 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of the due diligence that it carried out prior to appointing Tradebe to dispose of clinical waste, and what consideration it made of the reported penalties that the company had been subject to because of environmental and workplace health and safety violations.

Question reference: S5W-24673

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recent announcement by ScotRail that Glasgow Queen Street, Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort William train stations will not remove charges for access to toilets and plan to increase charges from 30p to 50p.

Question reference: S5W-24674

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 27 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the announcement by ScotRail that toilet charges will continue in four stations in Scotland, what its response is to research by Age Scotland that states that older people may not make journeys that do not have a convenient toilet stop.

Question reference: S5W-24765

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 27 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many times in the last 12 months it has met the UK Government to discuss the supply of hormone replacement therapy.