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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-02705

Asked by: Tess White, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 September 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 September 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it anticipates that NHS boards and health and social care partnerships will be ready to assume responsibility for all vaccinations from October 2021, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.

The Scottish Government has been working closely with Health Boards to ensure they will be ready to assume responsibility of routine vaccination programmes by the April 2022 deadline of the Vaccination Transformation Programme. Health Boards regularly report on their progress in transferring vaccination programmes and attend regular meetings with Scottish Government officials, ensuring appropriate oversight of plans, and providing a forum for any issues or challenges to be addressed.

Question reference: S6W-02658

Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 September 2021
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 21 September 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether the new resources, Promoting race equality and anti-racist education, from Education Scotland will include materials on the experiences of Irish people, and people of Irish descent, living in Scotland, and any discrimination they have experienced.

The definition of race underpinning the Education Scotland resource Promoting and Developing Race Equality and Anti-Racist Education: An Overview is the definition present in the Equality Act 2010. This definition encompasses white ethnic groups, including white Irish. The experience of Irish people is also referenced in the Changing the Race Equality Paradigm in Education Scotland’s Understanding race and racism wakelet for practitioners. An Education Scotland website to support the publication of their resource, to go live by the end of September, will be regularly updated to include resources for practitioners relating to different minority ethnic groups who experience discrimination.

Question reference: S6W-02704

Asked by: Tess White, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 September 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 September 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it (a) will provide an update on the progress of the Vaccination Transformation Programme (VTP) and (b) anticipates that the VTP will be completed by April 2022.

The Scottish Government is continuing to support Health Boards to develop and implement their plans to transfer routine vaccination delivery from GPs under the Vaccination Transformation Programme. Health Boards are making progress at varying stages, with some Boards having already completed the transfer of vaccination services. The Scottish Government and Health Boards have agreed that the programme will be completely rolled out by the deadline of April 2022.

Question reference: S6W-02693

Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2021
Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 21 September 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what obligations relating to the installation of replacement boiler systems will be placed on users of gas-fired boiler systems from 2025.

The Scottish Government and Scottish Green Party: Shared Policy Programme sets out that we will phase out the need to install new or replacement fossil fuel boilers in off-gas grid homes from 2025 and in on-gas grid areas from 2030, subject to technological developments and decisions by the UK Government in reserved areas.

The Shared Policy Programme also commits to introducing primary legislation, subject to consultation and to limits on devolved competence, that provides a regulatory framework for zero emissions heating (and energy efficiency), and underpinning powers to support this transition and ambitious programme.

The exact operation of the proposed regulations, and any ensuing obligations on current users of gas boilers, is still to be determined but to ensure that the approach is fair, and to avoid unintended consequences, this will be subject to a detailed consultation in 2022.

Question reference: S6W-02610

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 September 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many patients returned with suspected deep vein thrombosis (DVT) within 90 days of discharge following (a) orthopaedic and (b) any type of surgery in (i) 2010, (ii) 2015 and (iii) 2020.

The following table presents the information requested.

Table 1 : Number of readmissions with a diagnosis of deep-vein thrombosis readmitted within 90 days of discharge following an orthopaedic or any type of surgery.

Year	Number of readmissions after orthopaedic surgery	Number of readmissions after any surgery, including orthopaedic
2010	93	265
2015	87	243
2020	53	164

1. Year based on the date of admission when the surgery was carried out.

2. Surgeries have been defined as clinical procedures occurring in a surgical specialty excluding diagnosis imaging, testing and rehabilitation procedures. This may misclassify a few procedures, and there might be a slight overestimation of the number of procedures, as this leads to the inclusion of some procedures that may not be perceived to be ‘surgery’ – such as those not requiring anaesthetic or any incision.

3. A readmission has been counted when a patient has undergone a surgical procedure and within 90 days of discharge they have been re-admitted to hospital with a diagnosis of deep-vein thrombosis (DVT). A patient may have multiple ‘readmissions’ for any reason during the 90 day period following surgery but only the first readmission of the year for a patient has been counted. It is not possible to determine if the DVT was caused by the surgical procedure.

Source: Public Health Scotland

Question reference: S6W-02532

Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 September 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to designate care as a key growth sector and, if so, what the timeline is for this.

A well-functioning care sector will be vital in delivering a prosperous wellbeing economy for Scotland – one that is strong, fair and green.

The Scottish Government’s Economic Recovery Implementation Plan published in August 2020, acknowledged the care sector as key economic infrastructure and recognised that investment in care yields significant economic returns.

The Scottish Government has committed to delivering a 10 year National Strategy for Economic Transformation in Autumn 2021. This strategy will set out the steps we will take to deliver a stronger, fairer and greener economy.

Question reference: S6W-02533

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 September 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) ambulances and (b) patient transport vehicles have been available for deployment in each month since April 2019, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S6W-02477

Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 21 September 2021

To ask the Scottish Government when it last met the EIS and what was discussed.

Question reference: S6W-02502

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 21 September 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have received a dementia diagnosis in each year since 2007, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S6W-02420

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 21 September 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to improve the early diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS).