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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: S5W-20962

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 29 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what action it takes to assist deaf and hearing impaired people access GP services, and what steps it is taking to encourage GPs to adjusts their telephony so that people with hearing conditions can independently contact their GP practice by phone and have real-time dialogue with the practice staff.

The Scottish Government has provided £1 million funding over the three year period 2016-2019 to deliver the ground-breaking contact Scotland-BSL online interpreting Video Relay Service, which enables Deaf and Deafblind British Sign Language (BSL) users to contact and interact with Scottish public sector bodies, including GPs and third sector organisations. The service is accessible to Deafblind BSL users by making use of braille displays and speech synthesizers.

Question reference: S5W-20968

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 24 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much has been collected in hospital parking (a) charges and (b) fines in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S5W-20961

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 23 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many people are diagnosed with a lung condition.

The information requested is not held centrally.

However, the number of hospital stays for lung conditions is available in a table accompanying the ISD Annual Acute Hospital Activity publication, which is shown below. Note that the same person may be counted more than once in these figures and that they do not include patients with lung conditions who were not admitted to hospital during this period.

Number of hospital stays with a diagnosis of lung conditions, by financial year and diagnosis, Scotland 2013-14 to 2017-18 p

	Financial Year
	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18p
Diseases of the respiratory system (1)	90,277	97,447	101,130	103,168	108,822
- Acute upper respiratory infections and influenza	13,058	14,669	15,502	14,847	19,906
- Asthma	5,718	6,319	6,398	6,551	6,530
- Pneumonia	17,347	19,188	20,336	21,830	22,519
- Status asthmaticus	242	233	281	222	268
- Other acute lower respiratory infections	17,454	19,557	19,921	20,916	21,149
- Other diseases of the respiratory system	9,363	9,471	9,988	10,390	10,377
- Other diseases of upper respiratory tract	28,072	28,962	29,734	29,441	28,917
Malignant neoplasms of trachea, bronchus and lung	13,250	13,685	12,918	13,096	13,424

(1) Individuals may have multiple episodes with different main diagnoses recorded in a single stay and the subcategories may therefore not add up to the total number of stays for diseases of the respiratory system.

Source: SMR01. Taken from the ISD publication Annual Acute Hospital Activity and NHS Beds Information in Scotland - Year ending 31 March 2018 , published September 2018.

Question reference: S5W-20958

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 23 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many deaths from chronic respiratory conditions there have been in each since 2007.

"Chronic respiratory conditions" is a vague term for which there is no accepted definition. Deaths are coded according to the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems 10th Revision (ICD-10). Deaths from certain respiratory conditions, Scotland, 2007 to 2017

ICD-10 codes	Year
	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017
Chronic Lower Respiratory Diseases (J40-J47)	3104	3037	2986	2807	3062	3251	3184	3116	3512	3438	3449
Lung Diseases due to External Agents (J60-J70)	463	514	444	467	531	536	517	549	646	617	277
Total	3567	3551	3430	3274	3593	3787	3701	3665	4158	4055	3726

Source: National Records of Scotland

Figures shown above include conditions which are known to be chronic lung conditions, but it is possible that other chronic conditions may be recorded under alternative codes within the Respiratory Diseases chapter of ICD-10. Care should be taken - if comparing with other countries' figures - to ensure that they are based on the same ICD-10 codes.

Question reference: S5W-20967

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 23 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to raise awareness of (a) progressive supranuclear palsy and (b) corticobasal degeneration.

We are currently in discussions with a third sector organisation to agree how we can support work aimed at raising awareness of these conditions in Scotland.

In a broader sense, we recognise that progressive supranuclear palsy and corticobasal degeneration are distressing, life limiting rare neurological conditions. In 2014, the Scottish Government published its Implementation Plan ‘It’s Not Rare to Have a Rare Disease’. In February 2018, we published a report providing an update on this and the work being carried out in Scotland against the 51 Commitments in the UK Strategy for Rare Diseases.

Further to this we have developed a draft National Action Plan on Neurological Conditions, which is currently open for public consultation until 8 February 2019. This five year plan sets out a vision for driving improvement in the care, treatment and support available to people living with neurological conditions – and their carers - in Scotland.

Question reference: S5W-20960

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 23 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on respiratory ill health in (a) 2017 and (b) 2018.

Question reference: S5W-20959

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 23 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to improve early diagnosis of respiratory disease.

Question reference: S5W-20964

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 22 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers its public complaints system as being compatible with natural justice, transparent and consistent with policies on equality, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.

Question reference: S5W-20965

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many community alarms have been provided by each local authority in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S5W-20966

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding the number of vulnerable people who do not have a community alarm.

This information is not currently collected by the Scottish Government. The Scottish Government's Technology Enabled Care (TEC) Programme recognise that more people in Scotland could benefit from the use of telecare services (including community alarms) and are currently supporting the scale up in the uptake of these services.

In 2016, the TEC programme commissioned Deloitte to undertake a telecare feasibility study. It found that, among other findings, there is scope for Local Government to increase the current uptake of telecare from the current 20% (August 2017) of over 75 year olds to around 33% and highlighted the potential benefits this could bring - https://sctt.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Telecare-Feasibility-Study-Report-FINAL.pdf