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‘Care co-ordinator’ is a recognised term used in NHS England for staff who coordinate care in Primary Care Networks. These networks bring together GP practices to mutually employ staff. They do not exist in Scotland where GP practices are organised into clusters for peer support and health boards directly employ the wider multidisciplinary team. While the term ‘care coordinator’ is sometimes used in Scotland, it is used generically to describe staff co-ordinating care across more than just primary care settings.

As such, the Scottish Government does not hold information centrally on the numbers of full-time equivalents related to this broad range of posts in each territorial NHS Board area.

There are a number of routes that developers of a new medical device may follow, in order to pursue NHSScotland approval. As a test for early cancer detection, Trucheck would fall within the remit of the Scottish Health Technologies Group (SHTG), which is a national Heath Technology Assessment (HTA) agency based within Healthcare Improvement Scotland. SHTG advice is developed following a request for evidence support on issues facing health and social care services. The SHTG has not provided advice on the use of Trucheck to date.

Scottish Government have just released in Beta form, Scotland Innovates ( www.innovator.scot). Scotland Innovates allows suppliers and citizens to submit proposals to the entire public sector in Scotland that could potentially create innovate goods and services and bring benefit to our citizens. Advice is available on the site regarding the possible submission of a proposal.

The medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) regulates medical devices in the UK, we recommend that medical devices are registered with MHRA prior to placing the device on the UK market.

Curriculum for Excellence (CfE) is non-prescriptive in nature, allowing teachers and schools to judge the context for learning that best suits their learners and their individual circumstances. Therefore decisions about which pedagogies to use are for schools and local authorities to determine, in line with CfE.

Although we do not collect the specific data requested, play pedagogy is encouraged and utilised to support the social, emotional, physical and cognitive development of young children in a developmentally appropriate way at the early level of Curriculum for Excellence, from early learning and childcare(ELC) and into the early stages of Scotland’s primary schools.

In 2020 the Scottish Government and Education Scotland published ‘Realising the Ambition: Being Me – Practice Guidance for the Early Years in Scotland’. This guidance for practitioners in early learning and childcare and the early years of primary school updates, extends and strengthens the approaches to active learning and play introduced in ‘Building the Curriculum 2’ (2007). ‘Realising the Ambition’ reflects current evidence and the progress made in understanding how best to support learning and care for children in their early years.

In July 2022 Education Scotland updated the online Early Level Play Pedagogy Toolkit. The toolkit was co-produced with Scottish practitioners and complements the quality improvement support Education Scotland is providing in collaboration with Regional Improvement Collaboratives and local authorities. The toolkit aims to support a deeper understanding of play pedagogy and increase the confidence of early level practitioners (including those in schools) in using play effectively to support children’s learning and development.

Procurement of the MVA vaccine is being managed by UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) on a 4 nations basis. Scotland has secured a limited supply of 3,000 doses so far and will have access to more stock once it becomes available.

UKSHA have procured a further 100,000 vaccines that will be arriving in September. Date of arrival and details on Scotland’s share are still to be confirmed.

The National Mission has been set out for the five years of this Parliament and with it comes a commitment to fund the MAT standards. I have previously given Parliament and delivery partners assurance that funding is to be used for Alcohol and Drugs Partnerships and front-line services to support local areas in meeting the MAT standards. Initial funding of £6 million was provided to Health Boards on 1 March 2022 following discussions with Integration Authorities on the appropriate amount required to deliver the initial set of objectives.

Funding requirements for meeting the MAT standards for 2022/2023 and beyond was agreed with ADPs between January and April 2022 as being over £10 million per year for the next 4 years, to supplement the initial £6 million. The formal notification letter for 2022-23 was sent out to Integration Authorities and Health Boards in June 2022. Health Boards will draw down additional funding for 2022-23 as and when the initial funding has been utilised.

The Scottish Government does not consider setting a nationwide target for sustainable deer populations to be the most effective method of meeting our Biodiversity Strategy targets for 2030. Our approach is to assess and identify priority areas where there is evidence of, or a high risk of deer damage, to ensure deer management efforts are focused and coordinated where there is the greatest need.

We set out our commitment to modernising Scotland's systems of deer management in response to the independent Deer Working Group and work is being taken forward as part of our new deer project. This project sits under the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy Programme Board and work is being taken forward via four workstreams focusing on: legislation; regulation; incentives; and operational delivery.

Since its launch in August 2020, the Social Housing Net Zero Heat Fund has committed £15.3 million for the retrofit of 1804 Social Housing properties across Scotland. The fund offers grant support of up to 50% of the total eligible costs of the project, with the average amount of support provided per property being £8,300.

Transport Scotland holds information on charge points registered on the ChargePlace Scotland network only and by local authority boundary and not by parliamentary constituency.

Across the local authority boundary areas that this constituency covers there were a total of 28 public charge points commissioned onto the ChargePlace Scotland network between 01 June 2021 and 31 May 2022.

Our approach, which includes our new £60m fund, is designed to attract private investment and create the conditions for the public network to be largely financed and operated by the commercial sector.

Under the current constitutional arrangements in the United Kingdom the application process for all immigration routes is fully reserved to the UK Government and is dealt with by the Home Office.

The following link contains visa data and arrivals for the four nations of the UK, and includes a breakdown of data relating to visas sponsored by the Scottish Government: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/ukraine-sponsorship-scheme-visa-data-by-country-upper-and-lower-tier-local-authority. The webpage includes the Devolved Administrations and Local Authorities datasets.

Scottish Government will be publishing a further breakdown of those placed in accommodation in due course.

The regulation and funding of electricity networks are reserved to the UK Government. However, we are engaging closely with Ofgem and BEIS to ensure that its policy and regulation recognises and enables Scotland’s world leading net zero target, and this includes our plans for heat decarbonisation.

The Scottish Government has also worked closely with network companies to ensure their business plans reflect the scale and pace of low carbon technology deployment required to meet net zero targets. We have also set up a new Heat Electrification Strategic Partnership (HESP) with them as a forum within which to further develop our understanding of the scale, pace and location of network investment needed.

Ofgem’s draft determinations on these plans have proposed a combined allowance of £2.5bn for both Scottish Network companies with additional allowance being made available, should the rate of deployment be higher than anticipated.