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This information is not held centrally. Statistics on the number of people waiting for CAMHS and Psychological Therapies are available from Public Health Scotland as they have associated Standards that 90% of patients should start treatment within 18 weeks. These are not published at HSCP level but data at Health Board level are published. These can be found at the following links:

Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) waiting times - Quarter ending September 2025 - Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) waiting times - Publications - Public Health Scotland.

Psychological therapies waiting times - Quarter ending September 2025 - Psychological therapies waiting times - Publications - Public Health Scotland.

As of 30 November 2025, uptake of the adult flu vaccine in NHS Highland is 45.2% (69,285 vaccinations administered).

For winter 2024-25, NHS Highland adult flu vaccination uptake was 53.4% and in winter 2023-24 it was 52.8%. The figures for 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 can all be found at: PHS Vaccination Surveillance.

Uptake for child flu vaccinations by Health Board level is not published by Public Health Scotland via PHS Vaccination Surveillance.

We recommend contacting NHS Highland’s Immunisation Team directly, as they may be able to provide you with additional data.

The Scottish Government does not envisage that there will be any discernible impact on patients resulting from changes to Part IX of the UK Drug Tariff. The Scottish Government uses the UK Drug Tariff to populate medical device listings and pricing, which are then organised into different parts of the Scottish Drug Tariff. There will be no change to availability of existing medical devices available to be prescribed to patients in NHS Scotland.

Public Health Scotland is responsible for preparing influenza vaccination uptake statistics for NHS Highland, as well as all of the other territorial Health Boards.

The scheduling of the exam diet is an operational matter for the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA), which will be replaced by Qualifications Scotland. Following feedback from stakeholders, the SQA made a change to the published timetable on 9 December to move Higher Health and Food Technology away from the same day as Higher English.

I wrote to Nick Page, the Chief Executive of the SQA and met with the SQA in September regarding the 2026 exam timetable to underline that the priority should be ensuring that young people are supported following the return from the Easter break and do not face unreasonable workloads and additional stress from coincident and consecutive exams.

Developing the timetable is a complex task with over 200 separate exams across 130 different subjects and levels so coincident and consecutive exams are unfortunately unavoidable.

The SQA consult extensively with external stakeholders each year on the exam timetable before the publication, and work to ensure the number of coincident and consecutive exams are minimised. Their timetable advisory group includes representatives from practising teachers, head teachers, teaching unions, local authority representatives, learner agencies, and SQA staff.

Schools have well-established local arrangements to manage any impacts where coincident or consecutive exams arise. Learners are also eligible to use the Exam Exceptional Circumstances Consideration Service for the last exam of the day where they are scheduled for more than 6 hours of exams in one day and a request for extra time has been submitted as an assessment arrangement or English as an additional language (EAL) arrangement.

The Scottish Government does not hold information on how long patients wait for a GP appointment.

Most general practices in Scotland are run by independent contractors who are responsible for their own appointment arrangements.

The total spend on the community cohesion We Are Scotland campaign is £660,000.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-42174 on 9 December 2025. 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 challenges faced by seasonal workers and their employers are complex, and therefore significant work is required in order to bring these bespoke standards into place. Whilst we will progress this work for the remainder of this parliamentary session, the government does not expect to legislate within this current parliamentary session.

As previously stated, we are assessing what is required pursuant to section 315 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 1987.

The detailed information requested is currently being collated from those bodies that fall within the responsibilities of the Scottish Ministers. I will write to the member as soon as the information is available and a copy will be placed in the Parliament’s Reference Centre (Bib number: 66325).