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Our published annual Affordable Housing Supply Programme (AHSP) Outturn Reports include tables showing a breakdown of approvals, site starts and completions by local authority area. Please see links to the Outturn Reports for 2016-17 and 2017-18. Tables 4 and 5 in each document set out the information you require:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/affordable-housing-supply-programme-out-turn-report-2016-2017/

https://www.gov.scot/publications/affordable-housing-supply-programme-out-turn-report-2017-2018/

As the outturn Report for 2018-19 will not be published until late in 2019, the following tables show the number of site starts and completions by local authority:

Site starts in 2018-19

As set out in the latest Delivery Progress report published by the Improvement Service, 2,173 of the 9,251 full time equivalent additional Local Authority staff had been recruited by 30 April 2019. The report is available at http://www.improvementservice.org.uk/documents/ELC/elc-delivery-progress-report-june-19.pdf

Local authorities continue to refine their plans for the Early Learning and Childcare expansion and data updating forecasts about the number of additional Local Authority staff required, will be collected in September 2019. It is expected that this will change the forecast number of additional Local Authority staff required to deliver the expansion.

a) The Scottish Health Survey (SHeS) was established in 1995 and repeated in 1998 and 2003. It has been carried out annually since 2008.

There are two versions of the survey each year, version A and version B. Version A accounts for around 2/3 rd of the sample and includes a set of core questions and a set of modules on specific health conditions that rotate in and out of the survey. Version B accounts for the remaining 1/3 rd of the sample and includes the core questions and a biological measures module.

Full copies of the questionnaires used in SHeS are included in the appendix of the technical report for each corresponding year, available here:

https://www2.gov.scot/Topics/Statistics/Browse/Health/scottish-health-survey/Publications

The 2018 Scottish Health Survey is due to be published in September 2019. A report on questionnaire changes that were made from 2018 onwards is available here: https://www2.gov.scot/Resource/0053/00537370.pdf

b) The Health and Wellbeing (HWB) Census questionnaire is still in the process of being developed and will ask questions that cover the following topics/themes against the SHANARRI indicators (Safe, Healthy, Active, Nurtured, Achieving, Responsible, Respected and Included).

As the HWB Census is going to be asked of children from Primary 5 to Secondary 6 a number of questionnaires are in the process of being finalised, and each questionnaire is designed to include questions that are age/stage appropriate. For example, some topics/themes will only be asked of older children (e.g. mental health and substance use will only be asked of Secondary 2 pupils upwards, and sexual health questions will only be asked of Secondary 4 pupils and upwards).

I note that the research referred to examined the causes of the outbreak of HIV amongst people who inject drugs in Glasgow, which was identified in 2015. It was the product of collaboration between Glasgow Caledonian University, Health Protection Scotland, and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde. Scottish Government officials have well-established working relationships with several authors of the paper, including colleagues from each of the above organisations.

I visited the Brownlee clinic, which is leading the medical response to this outbreak, in November 2018 and visited Waverley Care’s street support team, which works to provide treatment support and testing, in July 2019.

We understand from NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde that there were 18 new diagnoses in the 2018 calendar year in people who inject drugs in Glasgow. Of those, two have moved to other health boards. All of the 16 still resident in Glasgow have started HIV treatment.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde is leading the response to the HIV outbreak amongst people who inject drugs in Glasgow. This is an important issue; I take a keen interest in the response to this outbreak and note that a great deal of work is going into supporting this vulnerable group.

We are providing £2.13m over three years to third sector organisations to support innovative work to tackle poor sexual health and reduce blood borne virus transmissions. This includes funding for Scottish Drugs Forum to work with people who inject drugs to help them reduce risk behaviours connected with HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

NHS Lothian and NHS Highland have reported that they currently have waiting lists for access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).

The number of needles distributed to drugs users in Glasgow in; (a) 2015-16 can be found at
https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Drugs-and-Alcohol-Misuse/Publications/2017-06-13/2017-06-13-IEP-Report.pdf ;

(b) 2016-17 can be found at
https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Drugs-and-Alcohol-Misuse/Publications/2018-08-07/2018-08-07-IEP-Report.pdf .

The data for 2017-18 and 2018-19 will be published by Information Services Division in due course.

The use of social prescribing is an emerging practice to complement healthcare provision, so that people can make informed choices about their care in line with their preferences.

The Scottish Government supports all efforts to support and encourage people to take part in sport and physical activity, and looks forward to seeing evidence as it develops on how social prescribing initiatives can contribute to this goal.

Scotland's Digital Health and Care Strategy recognises the benefits that technology can have in supporting the NHS to improve services.
The Scottish Government invests around £89m each year to implement a range of improvements including; provision of national GP IT systems to replace ageing local systems, a modern replacement for the Community Health Index and Child Health Systems and a national contract with Microsoft which will ensure that all boards have access to the latest technologies to support modern working practices and ensure they maintain cyber resilience.

As part of that, the Scottish Government's Technology Enabled Care Programme has also seen significant success in implementing technology to support more person-centred care. This includes for example the implementation of the Attend Anywhere Video Consultation Platform (also known as NHS Near Me) as well as the scale up in the use of the Home and Mobile Health Monitoring system FLORENCE which supports self-management of conditions such as high blood pressure using SMS Text Messaging.