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Housing to 2040, Scotland’s first long-term housing strategy, was published in March 2021 following extensive consultation across the country. The Scottish Government is now working with our partners to develop the detailed plans necessary to deliver the vision set out in Housing to 2040. We have committed to setting up a governance process and a monitoring framework so that we and others can assess progress towards the vision and be held accountable. We will establish that process and framework later this year following discussions with key stakeholders .

One of the headline targets in Scotland's Energy Strategy is for the equivalent of 50% of the energy for Scotland's heat, transport and electricity use to come from renewable sources. This is one of Scotland's 81 indicators in the National Performance Framework and the latest data is published on the National Performance Framework website ( https://nationalperformance.gov.scot/measuring-progress/national-indicator-performance ) as well as the Scottish Energy Statistics Hub ( https://scotland.shinyapps.io/Energy/?Section=WholeSystem&Chart=RenEnTgt ). Provisional figures for 2019 indicate that the equivalent of 24.0% of total Scottish energy consumption came from renewable sources

The Scottish Government intends to publish a draft refresh of the 2017 Scottish Energy Strategy in Spring 2022, and we will be reviewing this target as part of this wider piece of work.

Students who will be graduating as nurses in the 2021-22 academic year are still completing their education programmes and most are not due to graduate until September. While it is still therefore early in the recruitment process, the following table shows the number of graduates expected from Scottish universities by September and the estimated number of posts to be offered by NHS Boards for newly qualified nurses. At present the number of posts available equates to 87.1% of the total graduate workforce. These numbers are subject to revision as the recruitment process continues and more graduates are offered posts.

This information is not held by the Scottish Government. Information on positive COVID-19 cases is published daily by Public Health Scotland, however, this is not currently broken down by pre-existing health condition.

The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that people who have had a stroke receive the best possible care as quickly as possible to enable them to live longer, healthier independent lives. As we progress with our NHS Recovery Plan, evidence-based caution is at the forefront of our decision-making. We will continue to work with Health Boards to remobilise the NHS in the safest possible way, including for those in need of rehabilitation following a stroke.

Our overall vision is for everyone with rehabilitation needs to be able to access the care and support they need to live well, on their own terms. Work is underway to deliver the Framework for supporting people through Recovery and Rehabilitation during and after the COVID-19 Pandemic. This puts in place clear principles, priorities and objectives to support planning to meet increasing demand and to provide high quality person-centred rehabilitation in different settings.

Work is also ongoing to deliver our Programme for Government commitments to improve stroke pathways and services. This will include recommendations for a progressive stroke rehabilitation service, both in hospital and in the community.

Self-registration for 18–29 year olds closed on 11 June 2021. The online portal was part of the Scottish Government’s measures to widen the accessibility of vaccine appointments, and was extended for another week, on top of the original three week window. 40% of the young people aged 18-29 who were still to be vaccinated, self-registered on our online portal.

The 18-29 year olds who did not register online, are being scheduled for an appointment on the system this week, and letters are coming out over this week and next. However, to give advanced sight of appointments online, we are launching an appointment checker on NHS Inform to help people view their pending appointments. This will help those people, like students, who may have moved away from their registered GP term time address. This will also help them view their offered appointment earlier and chose to reschedule to fit with their work and life.

The cost of rectification for the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh project is £16.8 million. This consists of: £10.3 million relating to remedial works at the new facilities; £2.8 million for maintaining existing sites; and £3.7 million project and professional costs relating to ongoing project management and required specialist review.

The Scottish Government has provided in-kind support to Valneva via Scottish Enterprise. There has been no financial investment made in this facility by the Scottish Government.

The decision for any company to list on the Nasdaq is a commercial decision made by the organisation itself and the company already has a stock exchange, listing on the Paris Bourse (Euronext).

Vaccines Taskforce and BEIS have provided the following commentary that the UK Government has supported Valneva by providing funding for its early clinical trials and has also made a multi-million-pound investment to upgrade and expand Valneva’s Livingston manufacturing facility, as part of its supply agreement for COVID-19 vaccines.

In response to the pandemic the Scottish Government brought in a number of emergency legislative changes including the pre-action requirements that private landlords must undertake before applying to the First-tier Tribunal (Housing and Property Chamber) to evict a tenant on the grounds of rent arrears. We recognise the value of maintaining this additional protection to ensure private landlords work with their tenants to do all they can to sustain the tenancy where rent arrears have arisen. That is why we committed in Housing to 2040 to set out as part of a new Rented Sector Strategy for the establishment of permanent pre-action protocols in the private rented sector, bringing this tenure in line with current social rented sector provisions.

We are taking steps to extend the current emergency provisions, including the pre-action requirements for rent arrears, through the Coronavirus (Extension and Expiry) (Scotland) Bill 2021 which was introduced and published on 18 June. The Bill, now scrutinised and passed by this Parliament, once enacted will amend the expiry dates of Parts 1 of the Scottish coronavirus Acts to 31 March 2022, meaning the temporary measures in Part 1 of those Acts will be extended for up to six months. The Bill will also enable the Acts to be extended once more, should this be needed to respond further to the pandemic, subject to Parliament’s approval of the required regulations, to 30 September 2022.

In addition, we will consult on a permanence bill, seeking views on making the pre-action requirements permanent, to prevent any gap until that bill is superseded by any future housing bill. We are consulting on the bill over the summer and the Parliament will then scrutinise it after the summer recess.

The number of first and second doses administered per week to people living in the Scottish Borders has been sourced from Public Health Scotland. These data are from week ending 3 January to 20 June 2021.