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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.

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Question reference: S6W-11969

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 November 2022
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 18 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many chronic pain patients there have been in each NHS board area in each year since 1999.

We do not hold this information centrally. Waiting time statistics on the waits experienced by patients for first appointments with chronic pain services can be found on the Public Health Scotland (PHS) website at the following link: https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/chronic-pain-waiting-times/

However, PHS does not hold data that would capture the total number of patients with chronic pain who are being treated by NHS Scotland at a particular point in time, either under the care of specialist chronic pain services or otherwise.

Data is available by Board from the quarter ending 31 December 2015 to the quarter ending 30 June 2022.

A set of data tables for the most recent publication, which was released on 13th September 2022, can be found at the link above underneath the sub-heading of ‘Data files’:

Table 4 shows the number of patients seen (adjusted) by NHS Board and quarter. A drop-down menu can be used to switch between data for pain clinics and pain psychology services.
Table 6 shows the number of patients who were waiting for a first appointment (adjusted) by NHS Board and quarter. A drop-down menu can be used to view data for pain clinics and pain psychology services.

Data for the quarter ending 30th September 2022 is due to be published on 13th December 2022.

The statistics published in the data tables are based on aggregate data submissions obtained from the 14 NHS Boards.

Question reference: S6W-11963

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 November 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what the value was of its homebuyer support investments at the point of transaction for those investments that it still holds an equity stake, and what the current estimated value is of those equity stakes, broken down by scheme.

The value of the shared equity investment stakes is revalued annually using the Nationwide House Price index for Scotland. The following table shows the original capital invested together with the current valuation.

	Open Market Shared Equity/New Supply Shared Equity £m	Help to Buy £m	First Home Fund £m	Total £m
Capital invested at 31 March 2022	523.5	431.1	260.1	1,215.0
Revaluation at 31 March 2022	96.7	90.5	20.1	207.4
Current Estimated Value of Equity Investments	620.2	521.6	280.2	1422.4

Question reference: S6W-11907

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 November 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-10678 by Shona Robison on 22 September 2022, whether the meeting with the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities colleagues has now taken place, and what further funding has been secured to assess and remediate buildings in Scotland affected by combustible cladding.

Question reference: S6W-11911

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 November 2022
Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 18 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Scottish National Party manifesto commitment, what the cost would be of bringing the higher non-domestic property rate into line with that in England, broken down by industry sector.

The 2023 revaluations in Scotland and England will for the first time have different tone dates following the Scottish Government’s acceptance of the independent Barclay Review of Non-Domestic Rates’ recommendation to move to three yearly revaluations and a one-year tone date. This inevitably results in direct comparison between the two systems being less meaningful than in the past with Scottish rateable values more accurately reflecting contemporary market circumstances.

The Scottish Budget will set out non-domestic rates measures including the poundage, supplements and reliefs that will apply in 2023-24 based upon draft values which will be published for the first time on 30 November 2022 but it will only be possible to accurately calculate the impact of different tax rates and supplements on individual sectors when final rateable values are published on 1 April 2023.

Question reference: S6W-11915

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 November 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 18 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) social housing, (b) housing association and (c) private rental properties have been (i) placed into and (ii) taken out of the rental market in each month since January 2022, broken down by local authority area.

The following table shows the number of properties, by local authority area, as shown in the Scottish Landlord Register for each month in 2022 to September 2022. In relation to the social rented sector there is no monthly data available. Figures on the new supply of social housing are published as part of Quarterly Housing Statistics that includes information on the number of completions for social rent each quarter. In addition, the Scottish Housing Regulator collects annually, stock data by local authority area as part of social landlords Annual Return on the Charter Statistical information | Scottish Housing Regulator , although the data does not contain stock gain or losses, only figures at year end.

Registered properties on the Landlord Registration System, January to September 2022, by Local Authority Area

Local Authority	Jan-22	Feb-22	Mar-22	Apr-22	May-22	Jun-22	Jul-22	Aug-22	Sep-22
Aberdeen City	24,812	24,760	24,826	24,874	24,822	24,798	24,866	24,818	24,853
Aberdeenshire	11,885	11,864	11,892	11,761	11,861	11,820	11,794	11,798	11,749
Angus	7,064	6,991	7,004	7,035	6,991	6,984	6,994	7,025	6,999
Argyll and Bute	3,854	3,788	3,622	3,508	3,488	3,449	3,399	3,412	3,480
City of Edinburgh	58,929	59,107	59,323	59,465	59,463	59,409	59,505	59,602	59,452
Clackmannanshire	1,967	1,968	1,978	1,989	1,990	1,976	1,980	1,958	1,955
Dumfries and Galloway	10,636	10,529	10,277	10,252	10,239	10,226	10,317	10,288	10,290
Dundee City	15,479	15,515	15,514	15,491	15,433	15,462	15,380	15,339	15,352
East Ayrshire	6,094	6,083	6,102	6,103	6,058	6,036	6,010	6,004	5,963
East Dunbartonshire	2,935	2,946	2,982	2,986	2,967	2,956	2,934	2,934	2,932
East Lothian	4,821	4,802	4,776	4,809	4,814	4,796	4,737	4,721	4,748
East Renfrewshire	2,449	2,461	2,472	2,451	2,456	2,473	2,362	2,350	2,338
Eilean Siar	629	633	635	629	623	620	613	609	611
Falkirk	6,526	6,522	6,506	6,509	6,500	6,501	6,434	6,450	6,445
Fife	21,061	21,051	21,041	20,982	21,010	20,993	20,942	20,927	20,990
Glasgow City	58,267	58,502	58,263	56,961	56,639	58,259	58,813	58,919	59,238
Highland	11,103	10,789	10,667	10,701	10,653	10,531	10,771	10,773	10,768
Inverclyde	3,794	3,801	3,789	3,795	3,792	3,793	3,772	3,791	3,730
Midlothian	2,730	2,690	2,779	2,796	2,782	2,778	2,838	2,848	2,823
Moray	4,014	4,038	4,148	4,180	4,216	4,205	4,211	4,152	4,143
North Ayrshire	4,846	4,767	4,677	4,615	4,548	4,542	4,544	4,690	4,746
North Lanarkshire	11,801	11,838	11,962	12,041	12,148	12,162	12,175	12,423	12,615
Orkney Islands	1,004	1,009	1,014	1,003	1,010	1,008	998	1,010	999
Perth and Kinross	9,327	9,245	9,276	9,285	9,277	9,281	9,396	9,551	9,545
Renfrewshire	9,167	9,267	9,269	9,285	9,592	9,960	9,933	10,080	10,073
Scottish Borders	7,849	7,848	7,802	7,744	7,699	7,610	7,544	7,500	7,434
Shetland Islands	514	498	478	462	454	455	467	473	455
South Ayrshire	5,389	5,392	5,363	5,339	5,319	5,258	5,240	5,267	5,260
South Lanarkshire	15,343	15,374	15,167	15,153	14,927	14,935	14,832	15,063	15,137
Stirling	5,928	5,935	5,917	5,915	5,851	5,830	5,798	5,744	5,812
West Dunbartonshire	2,790	2,766	2,781	2,747	2,719	2,684	2,666	2,696	2,668
West Lothian	6,518	6,530	6,466	6,459	6,364	6,447	6,456	6,417	6,430

Scotland	339,525	339,309	338,768	337,325	336,705	338,237	338,721	339,632	340,033

Registered properties are properties that are on the Landlord Registration system under a landlord with a valid registration.

Question reference: S6W-11908

Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 November 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what correspondence it has had with all identified privately owned high-rise buildings in regard to the Single Building Assessment programme ahead of their forthcoming invitation onto the survey programme in 2023, and how many buildings it has been in contact with.

Question reference: S6W-11914

Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 November 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 18 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish monthly data on the number of (a) social housing, (b) housing association and (c) private rental properties being (i) placed into and (ii) taken out of the rental market, broken down by local authority area.

The Scottish Government does not hold this data centrally.

Associated monthly data on the stock of private rented properties is as set out in my answer to S6W–11915 and a description of available rented stock data in provided in S6W–11913 and S6W-11915 on 17 November 2022.

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

Question reference: S6W-12256

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S6O-01606

Asked by: Martin Whitfield, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 November 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what steps it is taking to improve safety for MSPs both within the Parliament and outwith the parliamentary estate.

Question reference: S6O-01611

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 November 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how it will support any Members’ staff who are dealing with added financial challenges and pressures after the homeworking allowance payment was discontinued in October.