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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-17448

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many operations have been cancelled in each year since 2007, including how many cancellations were due to a lack of sterile equipment, broken down by NHS board.

The specific information requested is not available centrally. Cancelled operations data has only been available centrally from May 2015 and provides the number of operations cancelled on the day before of the day of surgery. Information is also available on the number of operations cancelled due capacity or non-clinical reason, but does not specifically identify the many cause of the cancellation such as due to lack of sterile equipment. Cancelled operations information can be accessed at the following link:

http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Waiting-Times/Publications/index.asp?#2197

Question reference: S5W-17450

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out of the economic impact of the horse racing sector in Scotland, and what support it provides to the sport, including how it promotes Scottish racing to the (a) rest of the UK and (b) Republic of Ireland.

The Scottish Government recognises the importance of horse racing to rural economies and communities and has a good relationship and holds regular meetings with Scottish Racing to examine ways to expand its reach and impact. Scottish Racing’s annual review assess the economic impact of the sector and detailed that racing in Scotland generated £302 million of revenues and sustained 3,430 jobs in 2016.

Visit Scotland works closely with Scottish Racing to promote Scottish race courses and their events with free business listings via VisitScotland.com. Visit Scotland also produced a blog in conjunction with Scottish Racing that has featured prominently on the Visit Scotland website since its publication in June. The blog promotes Scottish Racing as a great family day out.

Question reference: S5W-17455

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have requested their patient records from GPs under GDPR legislation.

Question reference: S5W-17439

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how many people in each NHS board area in each year since 2007 have not been registered with a GP.

Question reference: S5W-17396

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how it encourages the spread of best practice in equality training within the NHS.

The Scottish Government and NHSScotland are fully committed to ensuring that the values of equality and diversity are respected by, and reflected in, our policies and practice. We work with a number of organisations to support health boards to embed the principles articulated in our national Partnership Information Network (PIN) policy: “Embracing Equality, Diversity and Human Rights in NHSScotland”, accessible at: http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0044/00441232.pdf .

The PIN policy includes specific provisions outlining the content of mandatory diversity training for all NHS Scotland employees. Additionally, through our national partnership with Stonewall Scotland, and through our membership of the Business Disability Forum, health boards can access consultative advice and support in order to promote best practice in the delivery of local equality training.

Question reference: S5W-17397

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how it evaluates and measures the success and cost effectiveness of equality training delivered by the NHS.

NHS Scotland health boards, as employers, are responsible for the delivery and monitoring of equality training provided to employees. Our national Partnership Information Network (PIN) policy: “Embracing Equality, Diversity and Human Rights in NHSScotland, accessible at: http://www.gov.scot/Resource/0044/00441232.pdf explicitly requires that all staff are provided with equality training and outlines a number of the common and core principles that should inform the content of that training. The PIN policy further includes specific guidance on monitoring the impact of local activity against health boards’ legislative responsibilities flowing from the Public Sector Equality Duty.

To ensure that local equality training is relevant and effective, health board human resources and equality leads are required to develop and deliver training in partnership with professional organisation representatives, trade unions and staff. Boards are also able to consult with the professional organisations with which we retain national membership/partnership arrangements, including Stonewall Scotland and the Business Disability Forum.

Question reference: S5W-17452

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 6 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how much in Barnett consequentials that it has received in each year since 2010 has been allocated to the NHS.

Barnett resource consequentials received each year from the UK Government since 2010-11 are set out in the following table, along with allocations by the Scottish Government to the frontline health budget.

The Scottish Government has prioritised the frontline health budget in each of these years. In 2011-12, 2015-16 and 2016-17, the Scottish Government has provided higher levels of funding to the frontline health budget than the total level of consequentials received from the UK Government.

	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18
	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m
Resource consequentials from UK Government to Scottish Government	270	448	536	677	275	82	615
Allocations by Scottish Government to frontline health budget	280	249	292	284	383	397	412

Question reference: S5W-17461

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 25 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 4 July 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-24346 by Maureen Watt on 17 February 2015, whether a code now exists, and what consideration it has given to collecting this information.

Question reference: S5W-17444

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 22 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 29 June 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how many pupils have (a) sat and (b) passed the SQA health and food technology exam in each year since 2007, broken down by level of exam.

Question reference: S5W-17366

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 June 2018
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 27 June 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to S5W-17210 by Kevin Stewart on 19 June 2018, whether it will provide the information for affordable new-build homes, broken down by local authority.

The following table shows a breakdown of new build homes completed in 2016-17 and 2017-18 by local authority area:

Local Authority	2016-17	2017-18
Aberdeenshire	204	192
Angus	17	88
Argyll & Bute	141	90
City of Aberdeen	101	205
Clackmannanshire	29	106
Dumfries & Galloway	96	44
Dundee	85	104
East Ayrshire	22	45
East Dunbartonshire	80	20
East Lothian	60	138
East Renfrewshire	60
Edinburgh	667	711
Falkirk	100	8
Fife	455	781
Glasgow	959	1040
Highland	215	272
Inverclyde	0	68
Midlothian	103	81
Moray	66	119
North Ayrshire	35	119
North Lanarkshire	113	280
Orkney Islands	63	32
Perth & Kinross	59	172
Renfrewshire	108	77
Scottish Borders	115	42
Shetland	26	36
South Ayrshire	94	43
South Lanarkshire	251	222
Stirling	66	53
West Dunbartonshire	69	30
West Lothian	157	66
Western Isles	18	24
Total	4,634	5,308