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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.

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Question reference: S5W-02571

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made in implementing Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest: A Strategy for Scotland.

Question reference: S5W-02568

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how it proposes to reduce the number of people who develop heart disease.

We know that a significant proportion of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is preventable and influenced by modifiable health behaviours. The Scottish Government is taking decisive action to address alcohol consumption, reduce smoking rates, encourage active living and healthy eating.

The prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) is one of the six priorities identified in the Scottish Government’s Heart Disease Improvement Plan (2014), through which we are aiming to provide care which is responsive to the needs of the people of Scotland.

Question reference: S5W-02570

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how it will encourage more people to learn cardiopulmonary resuscitation.

We are committed to improving survival rates from Out of Hospital Cardiac Arrest (OHCA) and are working in partnership with a range of public and voluntary organisations to deliver the aims in Scotland's strategy for OHCA published in March 2015.

The Strategy aims is to have 500,000 people in Scotland trained in the use of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and increase survival rates by 10% across the country by 2020. Learning cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is important in increasing bystander CPR, which in turn is essential to improving survival rates.

The public-facing campaign to increase CPR ‘Save a Life for Scotland’ was launched on 16 October 2015. Save a Life for Scotland (SALFS) is the partnership of public and voluntary organisations leading on the delivery of the OHCA Strategy aim to increase the number of people who are CPR trained.

Work is now underway to plan and deliver CPR training to the Scottish public over the duration of the next five years.

Question reference: S5W-01815

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 04 August 2016
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 22 August 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how it is helping ScotRail to meet its service arrival targets, broken down by (a) region and (b) journey.

For 2016-17, the PPM (Public-performance-measure) targets by region are as follows:

Service category	PPM target	Comment
Express Group	86.5%	Intercity services
Edinburgh & Glasgow	89.3%	Trains between Edinburgh and Glasgow via Falkirk High
Rural services	85.3%	Trains to the Far North from Inverness, and to Oban and the Kyle of Lochalsh
Suburban East	92.5%	Edinburgh-area trains
Suburban West - Peak	84.9%	Glasgow-area trains
Suburban West - offpeak	92.5%	Glasgow-area trains
Overall	91.3%

Officials from Transport Scotland meet regularly with ScotRail and Network Rail, to review system performance and to challenge both the operator and the network to improve their service standards.

Question reference: S5W-01749

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2016
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 10 August 2016

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its progress in achieving its equality outcomes.

Question reference: S5W-01211

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 04 July 2016
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 8 August 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many businesses have seen a reduction or remission in non-domestic rates through the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015.

Question reference: S5F-00097

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 June 2016
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 June 2016

To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government will ensure that existing infrastructure is expanded to cope with new demand from housing developments.

Question reference: S5W-00483

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 03 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 10 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government further, to the answer to question S5W-00184 by Fiona Hyslop on 3 June 2016, which stations it has asked to run public information adverts in each of the last five years, broken down by the amount received.

The Scottish Government has asked the following community radio stations to run public information adverts in each of the last five years, broken down by the amount received.

Station	January to December 2011	January to December 2012	January to December 2013	January to December 2014	January to December 2015	January to April 2016	Total
Argyll FM	£1,152.94	£4,680.96	£3,734.00	£5,991.00	£3,059.00	£263.00	£18,880.90
Caithness FM	£375.53	£4,420.00	£3,551.00	£5,942.00	£2,902.00	£250.00	£17,440.53
Cuillin FM	£1,358.82	£8,603.31	£6,388.00	£9,784.00	£5,562.00	£461.00	£32,157.13
Heartland FM	£772.95	£3,687.18	£2,639.00	£3,572.00	£2,339.00	£230.00	£13,240.13
Isles FM	£1,642.52	£7,835.15	£5,957.00	£9,733.00	£4,811.00	£420.00	£30,398.67
Leith FM	£82.35	£2,804.49	£949.00	£296.00			£4,131.84
Lochbroom FM	£1,642.52	£7,835.17	£5,957.00	£9,569.00	£4,891.00	£420.00	£30,314.69
Nevis Radio	£2,208.01	£12,013.91	£9,133.00	£14,590.00	£7,618.00	£644.00	£46,206.92
Oban FM Community Radio Ltd	£2,250.00	£7,835.17	£5,957.00	£9,361.00	£4,968.00	£420.00	£30,791.17
Sunny Govan Radio	£196.00	£5,605.75	£2,257.00	£1,294.00	£1,464.00	£392.00	£11,208.75
Two Lochs Radio	£1,113.09	£4,967.87	£3,812.00	£7,151.00	£3,573.00	£336.00	£20,952.96
Awaz FM		£3,460.00		£476.00			£3,936.00
Dunoon Community Radio				£24.00			£24.00
Your Radio	£140.00	£4,053.00	£2,359.00	£1,400.00	£1,957.00	£280.00	£10,189.00
Island FM					£24.00		£24.00
	£2,934.73	£77,801.96	£52,693.00	£79,183.00	£43,168.00	£4,116.00	£269,896.69

Question reference: S5O-00019

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 June 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government when the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport last met NHS Lothian.

Question reference: S5W-00207

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what the estimated completion date is for the new East Lothian community hospital.