- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 20 January 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Elena Whitham on 30 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government which fire stations are currently recorded as (a) lacking sufficient showering or toilet facilities, (b) lacking basic bathroom facilities, (c) lacking shower facilities, (d) lacking drying facilities, (e) lacking a water supply, (f) being in “poor or bad condition” and (g) held up at least in part by internal scaffolding, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The facilities in place at the 357 fire stations in Scotland are an operational matter for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service. There are 14 stations that have been identified with defective roofing material requiring remedial action that are located in Crewe, Cumbernauld, Dalkeith, Galashiels, Hawick, Helensburgh, Huntly, Liberton, Livingston, Marionville, Milngavie, Portree, Stewarton and Tranent.
It is worth noting that the listed stations above were inherited legacy buildings which contribute to the Services capital backlog investment requirement.
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 30 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of capacity at prison facilities for the purpose of relocating HMP and YOI Cornton Vale prisoners during the interim period between the prison’s closure and HMP and YOI Stirling’s opening.
Answer
I have asked Teresa Medhurst, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. Her response is as follows:
SPS continually monitor both the prison population and the number of available spaces for all those in our care. The current women’s estate, excluding HMP & YOI Cornton Vale provides 349 single room spaces as follows:
- HMP Edinburgh 92
- HMP & YOI Polmont 117
- HMP & YOI Grampian 48
- HMP Greenock 52
- The Lilias Centre 24
- The Bella Centre 16
The current average number of Women in SPS care is 282.
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 26 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government which sites prisoners at HMP and YOI Cornton Vale are to be relocated to in the interim before HMP and YOI Stirling is opened.
Answer
I have asked Teresa Medhurst, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. Her response is as follows:
Cornton Vale currently holds two distinctly separate population groups. Peebles House accommodates women who have achieved a Low Supervision category, while Ross House accommodates the women with the highest care needs.
The women currently living in Peebles House have taken part in individual discussions supported by SPS, NHS and Social work colleagues to identify the most appropriate location during the transition period. The identified locations for these women are:
- HMP & YOI Polmont
- The Lilias Centre Community Custody Unit
- The Bella Centre Community Custody unit
In order to ensure continuity of care for the women currently living in Ross House with the highest needs, special arrangements are being made to accommodate these women in HMP & YOI Polmont.
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 26 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will set out its contingency plans for the relocation of prisoners housed at HMP and YOI Cornton Vale in the interim period between the prison’s closure and HMP and YOI Stirling’s opening.
Answer
I have asked Teresa Medhurst, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. Her response is as follows:
It is anticipated that the majority of the women living at Cornton Vale will transfer to HMP & YOI Polmont during the interim period where there is already a comprehensive range of services and interventions available for them.
Every effort has been made to ensure the care of the women is not compromised or reduced during the transition period and each woman will engage in an individual case discussion supported by Health Care and Social Work colleagues to identify the most appropriate transfer location for them.
A dedicated area within Polmont has been identified and work is currently underway to increase the number of available ‘safer rooms’ ahead of any relocations taking place. A number of staff who currently work with the women will also relocate to Polmont to provide continuity of care. This will be supplemented by ongoing support from partner agencies including NHS Forth Valley, Social Work Services within Stirling and Falkirk local authorities and Voluntary Third Sector Partners.
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 26 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many prisoners from HMP and YOI Cornton Vale have already been relocated ahead of its closure, and to which establishments they have been relocated.
Answer
I have asked Teresa Medhurst, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. Her response is as follows:
As of Friday 20 January, 15 women had transferred from Peebles House in Cornton Vale to either HMP & YOI Polmont, The Lilias Centre or The Bella Centre.
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2023
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 24 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what it steps it is taking to ensure teachers are equipped to discuss and address the issue of extremist online misogyny with pupils.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 24 January 2023
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 23 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its commitment to "collate new or better use existing data sources" in relation to secondary breast cancer.
Answer
The National Cancer Quality Steering group have overseen the development of a newly proposed QPI on 'Recurrence Following Breast Cancer Treatment' in 2022. This proposal contains 3 parts - i) local recurrence (or new cancer) following conservation surgery; ii) local recurrence (or new cancer) following mastectomy; and iii) any recurrence (or new cancer) in same breast, axilla or distant site after surgical treatment.
This QPI, along with the other revisions have recently been subject to a public engagement exercise and all comments received via this process are due to be discussed at a further Breast Cancer QPI Formal Review meeting later in January prior to final agreement.
Further to this, the Scottish Government continues its dialogue with Public Health Scotland, NHS England and the Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership alongside breast cancer specialists and the charity Breast Cancer Now regarding data collection for secondary breast cancer.
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 20 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what recent steps it has taken to improve the accuracy of data collected around secondary breast cancer.
Answer
Secondary breast cancer – breast cancer that has spread to other parts of the body – is recorded on the Scottish Cancer Registry if it has occurred when the diagnosis is first made. The Scottish Cancer Registry uses a variety of sources of information to confirm stage at diagnosis and the quality of this work is assessed through audit and external quality assurance.
Public Health Scotland is part of an ongoing JRC-ENCR (Joint Research Centre – European Network of Cancer Registries) short life working group to improve and standardise collection of information on cancer recurrence. The aim of this work is to improve collection of secondary cancers that occur some time after the initial diagnosis. This will add to the information about secondary breast cancer at the time of diagnosis.
Several new and better sources of data on secondary cancers are being integrated into the national cancer intelligence platform at Public Health Scotland (PHS). For example, Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy data for the whole of Scotland are now collated at PHS and these include information on whether treatments for breast cancer are for primary or secondary disease.
The National Cancer Quality Steering group have overseen the development of a newly proposed QPI on 'Recurrence Following Breast Cancer Treatment' in 2022.
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 20 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will carry out a national audit of secondary breast cancer, in light of NHS England's reported national metastatic breast cancer audit, announced in May 2021.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-13150 on 17 January 2023. 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 .
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 19 December 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Clare Haughey on 17 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that adults are (a) recognised
and (b) included in any changes made to implement The Promise to care
experienced people and their families.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to keeping The Promise by 2030. It is recognised that the experience of growing up in care can impact you for all of your life. Providing the right support to people with care experience through our Whole Family Wellbeing approach and the range of work identified in the Promise Implementation Plan including trauma informed training, corporate parenting, education and employment.
The Implementation Plan sets out our commitment to ensure the voice of people with care experience is at the heart of the work we do to keep The Promise.
