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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-02301

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will establish a public inquiry into the prescribing of diethylstilbestrol (DES) to women in mother and baby homes in Scotland during the 1950s and 1960s.

Question reference: S6W-02303

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the number of women who were given diethylstilbestrol (DES) in Scotland and went on to develop cancer.

Question reference: S6W-02140

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 26 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what information is recorded by NHS boards on patients (a) loaning and (b) ineligible for short-term mobility aids.

Question reference: S6W-02139

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 26 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have been provided with a short-term mobility aid since the roll-out of guidance on the provision of these earlier in 2021, broken down by health and social care partnership.

Question reference: S6O-00076

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 September 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent, and plans to spend over the next four years, on the mitigation of landslips at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83.

Question reference: S6W-01534

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 July 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what modelling or scientific advice it has regarding the estimated number of COVID-19-related (a) cases, (b) hospital admissions, (c) ICU admissions and (d) deaths there might be following the planned easing of restrictions on (i) 19 July and (ii) 9 August 2021.

Since May 2020 the Scottish Government has published 3-4 week projections of infections, hospital and ICU occupancy in its weekly publication Modelling the Epidemicin Scotland Coronavirus (COVID-19): modelling the epidemic - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) . It is published each Thursday at 5.30pm. These projections take account of the uncertainty in transmission rates, and indicate the variability as to whether infections will increase, remain level or reduce in coming weeks.

The number of new cases has been increasing over the last week. The estimate of R has increased and now spans one. Hospitalisations have been declining from a peak in mid-July, but have now levelled off. Potential future changes in hospital occupancy and intensive care use depend on both current infection levels and the impact of the relaxations of measures which will take a few weeks to become apparent.

In the publication we have not been projecting the numbers of people expected to die with Covid 19 in recent weeks. The number of daily deaths has fallen to very low levels, too low to produce accurate projections.

Question reference: S6W-02046

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 25 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many breast cancer screening appointments have been cancelled in each month since January 2020 to date, and how many patients are currently awaiting an appointment following a cancellation.

The following table shows office-cancelled breast screening appointments, broken down by month from January 2020 until July 2021. It is important to note, however, that all of these office-cancelled appointments are reappointed as a matter of course and an invitation to screening sent to the participant. Where appointments are rescheduled in this way before a letter of invitation has been sent, the screening participant may be unaware their appointment has been cancelled and reappointed .

The data provided below was provided as management information and has not been subject to quality checks that would be applied in an official publication. Quality assured breast screening programme statistics are published annually by Public Health Scotland.

Office Cancel By Month
January-20	4906
February-20	5681
March-20	13008
April-20	9140
May-20	860
June-20	404
July-20	9
August-20	3768
September-20	4567
October-20	5777
November-20	3905
December-20	3825
January-21	3433
February-21	4265
March-21	3845
April-21	4213
May-21	5365
June-21	6021
July-21	6153

The following table shows breast screening appointments cancelled by screening participants, broken down by month from January 2020 until July 2021. All women who cancelled appointments from 1 March to the re-start of the screening programme in August were offered a further screening appointment. These figures do not include cancellations where someone has already rescheduled an appointment.

For those appointments cancelled by a participant after the re-start of screening, the participant can rearrange this at a later date however a new invitation is not issued until their next recall date.

Client Cancel By Month
January-20	2196
February-20	2101
March-20	2047
April-20	175
May-20	1
June-20	2
July-20	4
August-20	1570
September-20	2147
October-20	2455
November-20	2315
December-20	2117
January-21	2503
February-21	2339
March-21	2129
April-21	2117
May-21	2486
June-21	2862
July-21	2880

Question reference: S6W-02045

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 25 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have attended a breast cancer screening programme appointment in each month since January 2019 to date.

The following table shows the number of people who attended a breast screening appointment from January 2019 to July 2021. 2018-2019 data is provided as a baseline; as the programme operates on a 3 year basis, and as in some years the locations are further away from base sites, these figures are provided as an average. It is important to note that the 2020 and 2021 data provided was collected and used for management purposes for monitoring the recovery of the program and has not been subject to quality checks for official publication. Public Health Scotland publish breast screening programme statistics every year; the last publication was in May 2021 and the next publication is due in 2022.

Month	Jan 18-19	Feb 18-19	Mar 18-19	Apr 18-19	May 18-19	June 18-19	July 18-19	Aug 18-19	Sep 18-19	Oct 18/19	Nov 18-19	Dec 18-19
Breast Screening Appointments Attended 2018/2019	17,093	16,997	16,947	18,128	19,675	17,542	19,715	19,426	16,028	19,770	19,765	14,030

Month	Jan-20	Feb-20	Mar-20	Apr-20	May-20	Jun-20	Jul-20	Aug-20	Sep-20	Oct-20	Nov-20	Dec-20
Breast Screening Appointments Attended 2020	17,431	17,458	11,423	Pause to screening programme				12,631	15,424	16,717	16,660	13,493

Month	Jan-21	Feb-21	Mar-21	Apr-21	May-21	Jun-21	Jul-21
Breast Screening Appointments Attended 2021	14,160	15,271	19,507	18,554	19,373	21,012	19,018

Question reference: S6W-02044

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-00894 by Humza Yousaf on 29 July 2021, what incidences of hospital acquired infections at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital have ministers been notified of since 1 March 2020, broken down by (a) infection and (b) date of notification.

The Scottish Government is not able to provide the information requested due to this level of data not being publically available. In particular, individual patients may be identifiable should such hospital level information be published.

Quarterly reports on Clostridioides difficile infection, Escherichia coli bacteraemia and Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia are published, with the data broken down by Health Board, and are available her

Additionally, validated data on Covid-19 hospital acquired infection is published weekly, with information broken down by NHS Health Board to protect patient identity. This information can be accessed here.

Question reference: S6W-02150

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 25 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government on what date NHS stakeholders will meet to discuss a pathway to the delivery of haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT); who will be at the meeting, and whether the (a) papers and (b) minutes of the meeting will be published.