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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)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S6F-03527

Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 11 November 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 November 2024

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to reported concerns that its proposed formula for calculating rent controls in the Housing (Scotland) Bill will require above-inflation rent rises for hundreds of thousands of renters, thus not tackling unaffordable rents.

Question reference: S6F-03538

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 11 November 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 November 2024

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to reports that its spending on private consultants has almost doubled in the space of five years.

Question reference: S6F-03526

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 11 November 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 November 2024

To ask the First Minister when the Cabinet will next meet.

Question reference: S6F-03520

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 11 November 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 November 2024

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6W-29852

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Falkirk West, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 September 2024
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 11 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what mandated minimum percentage of uniforms must be produced by supported businesses in the provisions of the NHS Scotland uniform contract.

Question reference: S6W-29853

Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Falkirk West, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 September 2024
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 11 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of all uniforms supplied to NHS Scotland have been manufactured by supported businesses in each of the last three years.

Question reference: S6W-30781

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 21 October 2024
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 11 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has reviewed the document, Guidance on the Provision of Wheelchairs on Short-Term Loan, which was published in March 2021, to consider whether any updates may be required.

In 2023, Scottish Government published revised guidance on the Provision of Equipment and Adaptations, which includes actions regarding provision for short-term wheelchair loans. Officials are currently engaging with Health and Social Care Partnerships to better understand how this and the related guidance on the Provision of Wheelchairs for Short-Term Loan is being locally implemented. Throughout the course of their engagement, officials will consider if any updates to this guidance or additional materials are necessary.

Question reference: S6W-30875

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 October 2024
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 11 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what steps are being taken to increase the digitisation of patient records for young people with cancer, and whether it will consider creating a Scottish equivalent of the NHS England app to make accessing medical records and NHS services easier for young cancer patients and their families.

The Digitisation of records is an operational responsibility of individual Health Boards and GP practices. At a national level and building on the existing use of electronic patient record systems, we are focussed on allowing medical records, including cancer, to be stored, linked, and shared securely. This will support our ambition set out in the 2021 Digital Health & Care Strategy 2021 Strategy - Digital Healthcare Scotland % (digihealthcare.scot) to make the right information available to all appropriate staff, when and where it is needed.

We recognise the need to open access to individuals and facilitate consistency in experience across the country, which is why we committed in the 2024-25 Programme for Government: Programme for Government 2024-25: Serving Scotland - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)to launch the first version of a personalised digital health and social care service. Over a 5-year period this will incrementally provide digital notifications, access to personal health information, and options for interacting online with health and social care services.

The new service, as well as the digitisation and access to online medical records will support patients, and by extent their families, on a national level over time.

Question reference: S6W-30970

Asked by: Pam Gosal, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 11 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that bodies delivering public services record incidents of violence against staff, including with a breakdown by sex.

It is the responsibility of individual public bodies to ensure they have procedures in place for the recording of violent incidents and policies for staff welfare. The Scottish Government would strongly encourage staff to report all instances of violent and aggressive behaviour through their local reporting systems. If it is a serious incident, we expect employers to fully support staff in escalating issues to Police Scotland as quickly as possible.

It is important for public bodies to capture data on protected characteristics when staff report instances of violence. This kind of data will help inform targeted interventions on a national and local level.

Question reference: S6W-30973

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2024
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 11 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Government which community radio stations it has asked to run public information adverts in each of the last five years, broken down by the amount received by each community radio station from the Scottish Government.

Below is a list of the community radio stations that the Scottish Government has run public information advertisements on over the last five years, alongside the total annual spend for each year. Spend per individual community station is classed as commercially sensitive and as such we are unable to provide this level of detail.

April 2020 - March 2021 - Total spend: £214,731

Argyll Radio
Awaz FM
Caithness FM
Cuillin FM/Skye
Heartland FM
Isles FM
K107FM
Lochbroom/ Two Lochs
Nevis Radio
Oban FM
Panjab Radio
Pulse 98.4
Radio Ramadan
Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company
Waves Radio 101.2FM

April 2021 - March 2022 – Total spend: £405,912

Alive FM
Argyll Radio
Awaz FM
Caithness FM
Cuillin FM/Skye
Heartland FM
Isles FM
K107FM
Lochbroom/ Two Lochs
Mearns FM
Nevis Radio
Oban FM
Panjab Radio
Pulse 98.4
Radio Ramadan
Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company
Waves Radio 101.2FM

April 2022- March 2023 – Total spend: £74,008

Argyll Radio
Awaz FM
Caithness FM
Cuillin FM/Skye
Heartland FM
Isles FM
Jambo Radio
Lochbroom/ Two Lochs
Nevis Radio
Oban FM
Panjab Radio
Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company
Waves Radio 101.2FM

April 2023 - March 2024 – Total spend: £69,029

Argyll Radio
Awaz FM
Caithness FM
Cuillin FM/Skye
Heartland FM
Isles FM
Jambo Radio
K107FM
Lochbroom/ Two Lochs
Nevis Radio
Oban FM
Panjab Radio
Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company

April 2024 – October 2024 spend to date Total spend: £14,438

Argyll Radio
Awaz FM
Caithness FM
Cuillin FM/Skye
Heartland FM
Isles FM
Jambo Radio
Lochbroom/ Two Lochs
Nevis Radio
Oban FM
Panjab Radio
Shetland Islands Broadcasting Company