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While 97% of discharges occur without delay, further action is needed. Local systems are working to improve patient flow, supported by over £220 million of national investment, including winter funding to increase social care capacity.

The national rollout of MyCare.scot will be accelerated from April 2026. Over time, MyCare will give people in the health and social care settings secure access to key health and care information and should help to improve communication and support discharge planning.

The First Minister’s proposal for a bank holiday to follow Scotland’s opening game at the men’s FIFA World Cup will create an opportunity for the country to come together and share this landmark occasion.

We would encourage employers, including The City of Edinburgh Council and other local authorities, to be as flexible as possible to ensure their staff have the opportunity to celebrate the team's success.

The Scottish Government actively encourage disabled people to improve their wellbeing by being more physically active, in a way that suits them. Sport Disability Scotland has invested £750,000 to support this work.

Social Security Scotland make it clear on their website that disabled people are encouraged to improve their wellbeing by being more physically active, in a way that suits them, without it impacting their eligibility for disability benefits. A link to this resource can be read here: Celebrating Scottish Disability Sport Week - Social Security Scotland

Achieving 24/7 access to thrombectomy across Scotland is a complex piece of work, requiring co-ordination of resources across all NHS Boards. While the Scottish Government cannot currently provide a target date for establishing a 24/7 thrombectomy service, NHS National Services Directorate have established a Task and Finish Group with the goal of producing a list of options for the timely expansion of thrombectomy services across Scotland.

The group met most recently on 4 December 2025, and is making positive progress towards delivering recommendations for expanding the thrombectomy service.

The First Minister’s proposal for a bank holiday to follow Scotland’s opening game at the men’s FIFA World Cup will create an opportunity for the country to come together and share this landmark occasion.

As employers of school staff, including teachers, we would encourage local authorities to be as flexible as possible to ensure staff and pupils have the opportunity to celebrate the team's success.

This information is not held at sub-specialty level. Public Health Scotland uses the national waiting times datamart to track inpatient, day-case and new outpatient waits. While the system identifies the treatment specialty, planned procedure data is often incomplete or unreliable, and the actual procedure performed isn’t recorded and as such PHS cannot report waiting times for specific procedures.

The First Minister’s proposal for a bank holiday to follow Scotland’s opening game at the men’s FIFA World Cup will create an opportunity for the country to come together and share this landmark occasion.

We would encourage employers, including NHS Boards, to be as flexible as possible to ensure their staff have the opportunity to celebrate the team's success.

This information is not held by Scottish Government.

The preferred source for data on business deaths is the annual Office for National Statistics (ONS) Business Demography series, the latest edition is available at: Business demography, UK - Office for National Statistics. Business deaths are a proxy for the number of businesses closed down. Business deaths are measured as businesses removed from the Inter-Departmental Business Register (IDBR), which is a database of all businesses registered for Value-Added-Tax (VAT) and/or Pay-As-You-Earn (PAYE) income tax. A business is removed from the IDBR if its turnover and employment are zero for several periods, or if the ONS is notified that the business has ceased trading through an administrative or survey source. Business deaths data for Inverclyde are provided in Table 1.

Table 1: Business Deaths, Inverclyde, 2020 to 2024

I have asked Teresa Medhurst, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. Her response is as follows:

Regime restrictions can be applied by a Governor-in-Charge in order to maintain a safe and secure environment for those who live and work in our prisons. These are only ever used as a short-term response to establishment specific pressures. Due to the high prison population we are currently experiencing, we are having to implement local regime restrictions in restricted cases.

SPS recognise the impact that a regime restriction can have on those in our care, and that is why any restrictions are only applied by decision of the Governors in Charge and for as short a period as possible. Due to their often-spontaneous nature and short-term period of application, SPS do not routinely formally record their frequency, length or reason.

I can confirm that there has been no permanent removal of any scheduled activity and that all restrictions remain compliant with the Prison and Young Offenders Rules (Scotland) 2011.