- Asked by: Kevin Stewart, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenni Minto on 26 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is on track to achieve its aim of ending new cases of HIV by 2030.
Answer
As outlined in the Scottish HIV Transmission Elimination Proposal, published on 1 December 2022, our aim is to achieve ‘zero people contracting HIV within Scotland by 2030’. To do so, one of the key interim targets is to achieve 100 or fewer first ever diagnoses per year by the end of 2025.
The most recently published HIV data for Scotland (to 31 December 2022), released by Public Health Scotland on 26 September 2023, indicate that, since 2017, the annual number of first ever diagnoses recorded in Scotland has more than halved, decreasing from 226 in 2017 to 108 in 2022. Of note, 55 of 108 (51%) first ever diagnoses recorded in 2022 were thought likely to have been acquired within Scotland.
In addition, the data indicate a small proportion (11%) of first ever HIV diagnoses were recently acquired (i.e. within the previous three to four months). This is the lowest number and proportion for over five years and is, in part, the result of the Scottish Government’s world-leading approach to making HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis available on the NHS in 2017.
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenni Minto on 26 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how much of the remaining funding from the £10 million Long COVID Support Fund will be allocated in 2024-25, and when any such funding will be allocated.
Answer
As set out in my answer to question S6W-25994 on 18 March 2024, we remain committed to delivering the £10 million long COVID Support Fund in full. The 2024-25 budget published on 19 December 2023 outlines our plans to make £3 million from the long COVID Support Fund available over 2024-25.
We will process NHS Boards’ first tranche of their total 2024-25 allocations from the fund early in the financial year. The second tranche will be made later in the financial year following progress reporting.
We anticipate that the remainder of the funding will be allocated over the financial year 2025-26.
- Asked by: Audrey Nicoll, MSP for Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 26 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s report on how women born in the 1950s were affected by increases to the state pension age, and given that women are more likely to live in poverty than men, what assessment it has made of the potential impact that changes to the state pension age have had on the poverty rate among women in Scotland.
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Taken in the Chamber on 26 March 2024
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 26 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that Scotland has become the "worst country in Europe" for unqualified beauticians injecting customers with cosmetic treatments.
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Taken in the Chamber on 26 March 2024
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 26 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what action it is taking to tackle child poverty.
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Taken in the Chamber on 26 March 2024
- Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 28 March 2024
To ask the First Minister whether he will provide an update on what action the Scottish Government is taking to deliver the New Deal for Tenants.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 28 March 2024
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 28 March 2024
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government is doing to expedite the restoration of the Glasgow School of Art, in light of it being nearly a decade since the first fire.
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Taken in the Chamber on 28 March 2024
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 28 March 2024
To ask the First Minister what action the Scottish Government plans to take following the publication of the University of Stirling study highlighting the reported risk of crumb rubber infill on artificial pitches.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 28 March 2024
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 28 March 2024
Question to be taken in Chamber.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 28 March 2024
- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2024
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 28 March 2024
To ask the First Minister, further to the regulations relating to XL Bully-type dogs coming into force, to whom a dog owner can apply for advice on whether their dog fits the conformation of the XL Bully-type, in light of reports that a substantial number of dog owners in England are now applying to deregister their dogs having established retrospectively that their pet does not conform to the Defra definition of an XL Bully-type dog.
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Taken in the Chamber on 28 March 2024