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The Scottish Government does not hold this information.

An annual programme of planned maintenance ensures that all exterior surfaces of the building are kept clean.  Additional reactive cleaning and removal of pigeon droppings is also carried out where necessary.

Planning authorities publish on an annual basis a Planning Performance Framework Report which includes information about staff resource.

Authorities submit their reports to the Scottish Government and we assess them against the 15 Key Performance Markers developed by the High Level Group on Planning Performance and feedback is provided to assist improvement.

Our Count14 campaign, launched on 11 March, is running for three weeks across TV, print, radio and digital platforms, to raise awareness of the UK Chief Medical Officers’ lower risk maximum drinking guidelines of 14 units of alcohol per week. This first phase of awareness raising work will be followed by further activity in 2019.

Our messaging has been developed to clearly demonstrate what 14 units means in terms of common alcoholic drinks, and to encourage people to think about how their weekly drinking adds up. It also highlights that if you regularly drink around 14 units per week, it’s best to spread these units over three days or more, with some alcohol free days in between. Drinking within the guidelines keeps our risk of certain diseases, including bowel, breast and mouth cancer, low.

The campaign webpage is available at count14.scot .

The campaign is taking place under Action 14 of the new Alcohol Framework, launched in 2018 ( https://www.gov.scot/publications/alcohol-framework-2018-preventing-harm-next-steps-changing-relationship-alcohol ). I welcome the cross-party support for the Framework as a whole, and for this Action in particular.

I refer the member to the answer to question S5W-21921 on 20 March 2019. 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 .

The answer to this question is available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 60526).

General Practice Specialty Training (GPST) is based on the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) curriculum which is the educational framework that defines and sets the standards for independent general practice The RCGP curriculum is approved by the GMC and any changes made to the curriculum require GMC approval. All components of the assessment system must be successfully completed before a Certificate of Completion of Training (CCT) can be awarded.

General Practice Specialty Trainees (GPST) undergo high quality training and education which enables them to fulfil and pass all requirements specified within the Royal College of GPs (RCGP) curriculum which is approved and overseen by the GMC as regulator for the profession.

GPSTs also gain considerable experience in managing and learning about child health problems in the GP practice setting where a high proportion of consultations are with children or concerning child health issues. GPSTs will also receive training in the GP out of hours setting where child consultations are common. Regular teaching on child health takes place in the practice setting and via educational release teaching. Both NHS Education for Scotland & the SG facilitate and fund additional learning opportunities for GPs; the SG is funding an enhanced Paediatric GP training fellowship initiative in NHS Grampian and will evaluate the results over 2019.

The Scottish Government continues to work closely with NHS Scotland health boards, the BMA and the Royal Medical Colleges, to support a comprehensive approach to workforce recruitment and retention. We have already announced immediate work being taken forward to supplement existing recruitment activity, including the investment of over £4 million pounds, over the next three years, in priority areas, including consultant specialists, nursing and general practice. This includes the development of a dedicated international recruitment unit, based in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, which is now live.

Additionally, we have worked with the BMA GP group to develop the new GP contract, backed by investment of £110 million in 2018-19, which will promote service sustainability and enhance recruitment into the profession. Furthermore, we continue to look holistically at the attractiveness of health and social care careers through a variety of measures, including developing Scotland’s first Graduate Entry Medicine Programme (ScotGEM), through the remote and rural incentive scheme, and through increases to the student nursing bursary. I remain committed to engaging proactively with stakeholders to explore how we continue to evolve this comprehensive approach.

Most intrauterine devices (IUDs) are inserted in a primary care or hospital outpatient setting and any problems arising will often be treated there rather than as a hospital inpatient. However, data are not available centrally on the number of women treated for such problems in primary care or hospital outpatient settings.

Information on the number of intrauterine devices and intrauterine systems prescribed from sexual health settings (National Sexual Health System - NaSH) and primary care settings (Prescribing Information System) is published by NSS: Information Services Division.

'The Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) Key Clinical Indicator (KCI), LARC - 2018 in the LARC' publication gives details in 'data tables' 2 and 3 of the number of prescribed IUD devices/systems respectively and shows that across the last 5 years, the total number of prescribed intrauterine devices was around 36,000. For the same period, around 111,000 intrauterine systems were prescribed. The tables are available through the following link: https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Sexual-Health/Publications/

NSS: Information Services Division has also provided the following table which shows the number of hospital inpatient stays which resulted from complications related to intrauterine contraceptive devices. The number of hospital stays are too small to allow further breakdown by age-group:

Number of hospital stays with any diagnosis of mechanical complications of intrauterine contraceptive device, by health board of residence

This information is not held centrally. Historically, this condition was difficult to diagnose and assess consistently. To aid better assessment and diagnosis The Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network published a guideline on the assessment and diagnosis of Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) on 23 January 2019. It stated that it is estimated that approximately 3.2% of babies born in the UK are affected by fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) It is estimated that prevalence of FASD is around 2% in Scotland. With approximately 60,000 births annually in Scotland this would translate into an estimate of 1,200 babies with FASD born in Scotland every year. S5W-15530 on 17 April 2018 provided detail from the Scottish Birth Record of those recorded as having a diagnosis of “Fetal Alcohol Syndrome” in Scotland during the period 2003 to 2017. The action the Scottish Government is taking includes an increase in third sector support for families affected by Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder (FASD) and improved access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services set out in Programme for Government 2018. The Alcohol Framework published on 20 November 2018 sets out our priorities for preventing alcohol related harm, including a specific action on FASD.

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 .