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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S5W-28027

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 20 March 2020
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 6 April 2020

To ask the Scottish Government what funding it gave to the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland in (a) 2015, (b) 2016, (c) 2017, (d) 2018 and (e) 2019 (i) for staffing and premises, (ii) in core funding and (iii) to distribute to other organisations.

The Scottish Government has funded the Health and Social Care Alliance (The ALLIANCE) for their work on a wide ranging number of projects in the years set out in the question (2015-2019). This work has crossed a number of Scottish Government policy areas including Children and Families and Health and Social Care.

Within Health and Social Care the Scottish Government currently has a Strategic Partnership Agreement with the ALLIANCE. This agreement sees the ALLIANCE receive around £4m per year in consolidated funding to deliver a range of projects and programmes.

The work set out in the agreement sits within the context of the Christie Commission Report on the future delivery of public services and is intended to contribute to improving outcomes for people across the health and social care landscape.

The detailed information that you have requested requires resource to assemble and collate and given the Scottish Government resource is focussed on responding to the COVID-19 pandemic, I will write to the member as soon as the information is available and a copy will be placed in the Parliament's Reference Centre (Bib number 61458).

Question reference: S5W-27942

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 March 2020
Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 3 April 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been admitted to each hospital for treatment because of self-harm in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S5W-27939

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 March 2020
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 3 April 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how many rehab beds have been taken out of service in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S5W-28051

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 23 March 2020
Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 2 April 2020

To ask the Scottish Government whether it remains committed to implementing the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities in full.

Yes. The Scottish Government remains fully committed to meeting its UNCRPD obligations. The Scottish Government’s commitment to the principles of the UNCRPD is set out in its disability action plan which was published in December 2016.

Disabled people are also entitled to the rights set out in other human rights treaties, together with the protections established as a matter of domestic law by the Human Rights Act 1998, the Scotland Act 1998 and the Equality Act 2010.

Question reference: S5W-28033

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 23 March 2020
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 1 April 2020

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-27878 by Joe FitzPatrick on 19 March 2020, whether it will provide the information that was requested regarding which of its advisory groups, forums, partnerships, boards and task forces meet in private without media and public access and, in light of its membership of the OGP, what action it will take to ensure that they now do so.

Across the Scottish Government there are numerous advisory groups, forums, partnerships, boards and task forces. We do not hold a central record of these and they will each be subject to local governance arrangements. As part of implementing open government principles, we will consider what guidance might be developed to support officials across teams to follow these principles in the context of the engagement they are undertaking.

Question reference: S5W-28034

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 23 March 2020
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 1 April 2020

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-27878 by Joe FitzPatrick on 19 March 2020, what its response is to the call at a meeting on 27 February 2020 that was arranged by the Health and Social Care Alliance for there to more than two places on the NACCP for people with lived experience of chronic pain, in light of the committee being attended by up to 15 officials.

Question reference: S5W-27938

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 March 2020
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 1 April 2020

To ask the Scottish Government when the 2019-20 Scottish drug death statistics will be published.

Question reference: S5W-27934

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 March 2020
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 31 March 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how many cleaners have been employed by each NHS board in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S5W-27941

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 March 2020
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 30 March 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how many cases of necrosis have been treated by each hospital in each year since 2007.

Question reference: S5W-27940

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 March 2020
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 25 March 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how much has been spent on referrals to private drug rehab facilities in each year since 2007.

The information regarding how much has been spent on referrals to private drug rehab facilities each year since 2007 is not held centrally by the Scottish Government.

We have invested almost £800 million to tackle problem alcohol and drug use since 2008. For 2020-21 the Scottish Government is investing up to £95 million for reducing the harms from drug and alcohol use. Decisions on the configuration of local services, including residential rehabilitation, as well as the level of resource, funding allocated and referral to them are made locally across Scotland.