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The Office of Rail Regulation (ORR) is responsible for ensuring that railway operators, including ScotRail comply with health and safety law. The Scottish Government expects that ScotRail follows appropriate regulations in place to ensure its passengers travel safely.

For the years 2010-11 to 2024-25 the Scottish Government’s school estates data collection makes a distinction between schools built and those refurbished, while for the years 2007-08 to 2009-10 no such distinction was made in the data collection.

Table 1 provides statistics on the number of schools built/refurbished by sector in each local authority between 2007-08 and 2009-10.

Statistics on the number of schools built by sector and local authority since 2010-11 are provided in Table 2, while Table 3 provides the corresponding statistics for refurbished schools.

Across all years, only schools where the total cost of the works (build or refurbishment) was £500,000 or more for primary schools or £1 million or more for secondary and special schools are included.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-42968 on 26 January 2026. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers

The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that all children and young people receive a broad, inclusive, and supportive education that meets their individual needs. Within Curriculum for Excellence, health and wellbeing is a key area of learning and a shared responsibility across the school community.

While the Experiences and Outcomes within Health and Wellbeing and Science currently do not refer explicitly to musculoskeletal conditions, in Health and Wellbeing, they do provide a framework for exploring the positive impact of physical activity on learning, resilience, and quality of life. Schools are encouraged to tailor this learning to reflect the needs and experiences of their learners, including increasing awareness and understanding of long-term health conditions where appropriate.

The guidance on supporting children and young people with healthcare needs in schools includes advice on what to do in the event of a possible severe allergic reaction from a pupil who has not been diagnosed with, or experienced, this reaction previously and also advice on what to do for those where an allergy is known.

The guidance states that schools may administer their "spare" adrenaline auto-injector (AAI) device for a pupil at risk of anaphylaxis, where both medical authorisation and written parental consent for use of the spare AAI device has been provided.

Paragraph 25 of the guidance also sets out what schools should do in the event of a possible severe allergic reaction in a pupil who has not been diagnosed or experienced this reaction previously. This paragraph states that in these circumstances the emergency services should be contacted on 999 and advice sought from them as to whether administration of the school’s spare emergency AAI would be appropriate. The Healthcare in Schools Guidance is available from Supporting children and young people with healthcare needs in schools: guidance - gov.scot.

Officer training and the associated resources and capacity in how Police Scotland respond to incidents involving unexploded ordnance are operational policing decisions for the Chief Constable, under the scrutiny of the Scottish Police Authority (SPA), as is how they work with other agencies on this issue.

It is for the Chief Constable, working with the working with the Scottish Police Authority, to determine how to allocate its budget to meet policing priorities including the provision of all necessary training. For the last ten years, the Scottish Government has increased the SPA budget year on year. We will invest record funding of over £1.7 billion for policing in 2026-27, a total budget increase of £81.5m or 5% compared to the published 2025-26 Autumn Budget Revision (ABR) budget.

This information is available in table L2.1 of the supplementary tables accompanying the Summary Statistics for Attainment and Initial Leaver Destinations (SSAILD) publication which is available on our website.

Supporting documents - Summary Statistics for Attainment and Initial Leaver Destinations, No. 7: 2025 edition - gov.scot

The time series for this data begins in 2009-10. Data is not available for earlier years.

Regulation of veterinary medicines is a reserved matter for the UK Government. The Veterinary Medicines Directorate (VMD) is responsible for enforcing Veterinary Medicines Regulations and undertaking appropriate monitoring in fulfilment of their regulatory duties.

Antibiotics are only prescribed by veterinarians and must be used responsibly where required for the health and welfare of farmed fish, as legally required under the reserved Veterinary Medicines Regulations 2013.

Scotland participated in the development of the UK’s 20 year vision to contain and control antimicrobial resistance (AMR) by 2040, and is committed to delivering the strategic outcomes of the 2024 – 2029 National Action Plan, through a national implementation plan. This includes a commitment to support operators to protect animal health, including aquaculture, and reduce the need for antibiotics.

The Scottish Government is committed to the “One Health” approach of the 20 year AMR vision, which recognises human health is linked to the health of animals, plants, the environment and food. The VMD monitors levels of antimicrobial resistance in animals which is combined with data regarding levels of antimicrobial resistance detected in humans as part of this One Health approach.

The Scottish Government welcomes Audit Scotland’s report and has asked the Collaborative Response and Assurance Group (CRAG), which is co-chaired by the Scottish Government and COSLA, to come together to consider the recommendations as a whole and to develop a partnership approach to addressing them. We remain committed to reforming the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000, which will play a critical role in embedding this recommendation in future.

The Audit Scotland report was discussed at the CRAG meeting held on 12 January with a sub-group due to meet in coming days to review all the recommendations. As such, we are not yet at a point where it is possible to provide specific deadlines or a definitive timeline for when the Group will conclude its consideration of the recommendations and report back. However, the Scottish Government will provide an update to Parliament when the Group is in a position to do so.

The Scottish Government welcomes Audit Scotland’s report and has asked the Collaborative Response and Assurance Group, which is co-c-haired by the Scottish Government and COSLA, to come together to consider the recommendations as a whole and to develop a partnership approach to addressing them. The Scottish Government has begun this work and is engaging with key partners to discuss the delivery of Powers of Attorney and Guardianship processes.

This work is still at an early stage. As such, the form that the Group’s work will ultimately take, and the timescales for its completion, have not yet been determined. The Scottish Government will provide further updates as this work progresses.