- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
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Current Status:
Answered by Graeme Dey on 28 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what the (a) passenger and (b) vehicle carrying capacity is of vessels that are leased by CalMac, on routes where the MV Pentalina has been time chartered to provide relief capacity.
Answer
The maximum passenger and vehicle carrying capacity of the vessels in the CalMac fleet that normally operate the routes they will consider deploying the MV Pentalina on, if chartered, are detailed in the following table.
Vessel | Passenger Capacity | Vehicle Capacity ** | Deck Space (metres) |
MV Caledonian Isles | 1,000 | 92 cars | 150 m |
MV Coruisk * | 249 | 35 cars | 70 m |
MV Isle of Arran * | 447 | 55 cars | 103 m |
MV Isle of Mull | 951 | 66 cars | 150 m |
MV Loch Seaforth | 700 | 130 cars | 372 m |
MV Finlaggan | 550 | 79 cars | 180 m |
MV Herbridean Isles | 465 | 60 cars | 125 m |
* Summer timetable only
** Maximum capacity for cars, this can vary dependant on operational requirements and if mezzanine deck is deployed (where applicable)
In accordance with Scottish Government guidance for transport, allowing 1 metre physical distancing, passenger capacity is currently below the figures quoted.
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 June 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Graeme Dey on 28 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether any work is being carried out to assess the impact of climate change on the resilience and safe performance of the railway service.
Answer
The Scottish Government, unlike the UK Government, included a requirement within the Scottish High Level Output Specification (HLOS) for Network Rail (NR) to take action on climate change during this Regulatory Control Period.
For the period 2019-2024, the Scottish Government is providing funding to support a 21% increase in NR spending on operation, maintenance and renewal activities on the Scottish rail network. This is in line with the Office of Rail and Road’s independent determination of costs necessary to deliver safety, performance and resilience requirements, including Climate Change action.
In March of this year, NR published two reports from independently commissioned experts following the derailment at Carmont. The work was a recommendation from the NR Interim Report on the Carmont derailment published in September 2020, to establish two task forces examining in detail NR’s GB wide management of extreme weather and earthworks.
- Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 June 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what the death rate from COVID-19 for people with (a) asthma, (b) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), (c) idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), (d) bronchiectasis and (e) obstructive sleep apnoea has been in each month since March 2020.
Answer
This information is not held by the Scottish Government. COVID-19 death data is published by National Records of Scotland, but is not currently available for these pre-existing health conditions.
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 14 June 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Kate Forbes on 28 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of each source of funding for the fibre optic undersea cable project, between Ormsary and Jura.
Answer
Build through the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband (DSSB) Highlands and Islands contract - including the subsea cable between Ormsary and Jura - was delivered through a combination of funding from Scottish Government, UK Government, Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), Local Authorities and BT.
However, it is not possible to provide a breakdown for a single piece of infrastructure.
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 21 June 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Kate Forbes on 28 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what studies it has commissioned regarding the future financial viability of Ferguson Marine.
Answer
In October 2019 PWC provided support and detailed analysis on a full range of options for Ferguson Marine. Scottish Ministers considered the evidence and on that basis the Scottish Government stepped in to take ownership, to ensure a viable future for the yard, it's workforce and completion of the much needed vessels. The Scottish Government continues to work closely with the yard to explore all possible options to ensure a viable future for the business.
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 June 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will extend the window for 18- to 29-year-olds to register for a COVID-19 vaccination appointment.
Answer
Self-registration for 18–29 year olds closed on 11 June 2021. The online portal was part of the Scottish Government’s measures to widen the accessibility of vaccine appointments, and was extended for another week, on top of the original three week window. 40% of the young people aged 18-29 who were still to be vaccinated, self-registered on our online portal.
The 18-29 year olds who did not register online, are being scheduled for an appointment on the system this week, and letters are coming out over this week and next. However, to give advanced sight of appointments online, we are launching an appointment checker on NHS Inform to help people view their pending appointments. This will help those people, like students, who may have moved away from their registered GP term time address. This will also help them view their offered appointment earlier and chose to reschedule to fit with their work and life.
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 June 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what safeguards it has put in place to ensure that the investment it has made in the (a) research and development and (b) manufacturing in Livingston of Valneva’s inactivated whole virus COVID-19 vaccine, will not be used to fund shareholder pay-outs when the company lists on the New York Stock Exchange.
Answer
The Scottish Government has provided in-kind support to Valneva via Scottish Enterprise. There has been no financial investment made in this facility by the Scottish Government.
The decision for any company to list on the Nasdaq is a commercial decision made by the organisation itself and the company already has a stock exchange, listing on the Paris Bourse (Euronext).
Vaccines Taskforce and BEIS have provided the following commentary that the UK Government has supported Valneva by providing funding for its early clinical trials and has also made a multi-million-pound investment to upgrade and expand Valneva’s Livingston manufacturing facility, as part of its supply agreement for COVID-19 vaccines.
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what the COVID-19 vaccination rate for (a) first and (b) second doses has been each week in the Scottish Borders.
Answer
The number of first and second doses administered per week to people living in the Scottish Borders has been sourced from Public Health Scotland. These data are from week ending 3 January to 20 June 2021.
Location | Week ending | New dose 1 | New dose 2 |
Scottish Borders | 03-01-2021 | 411 | 3 |
Scottish Borders | 10-01-2021 | 2220 | 27 |
Scottish Borders | 17-01-2021 | 2575 | 7 |
Scottish Borders | 24-01-2021 | 2462 | 26 |
Scottish Borders | 31-01-2021 | 4972 | 38 |
Scottish Borders | 07-02-2021 | 9887 | 52 |
Scottish Borders | 14-02-2021 | 10475 | 360 |
Scottish Borders | 21-02-2021 | 1818 | 444 |
Scottish Borders | 28-02-2021 | 4364 | 858 |
Scottish Borders | 07-03-2021 | 4491 | 1611 |
Scottish Borders | 14-03-2021 | 223 | 2722 |
Scottish Borders | 21-03-2021 | 4088 | 3349 |
Scottish Borders | 28-03-2021 | 3565 | 2236 |
Scottish Borders | 04-04-2021 | 1258 | 3995 |
Scottish Borders | 11-04-2021 | 4492 | 3750 |
Scottish Borders | 18-04-2021 | 5995 | 7412 |
Scottish Borders | 25-04-2021 | 256 | 7169 |
Scottish Borders | 02-05-2021 | 154 | 2143 |
Scottish Borders | 09-05-2021 | 1653 | 1326 |
Scottish Borders | 16-05-2021 | 2341 | 3717 |
Scottish Borders | 23-05-2021 | 3167 | 4252 |
Scottish Borders | 30-05-2021 | 949 | 4613 |
Scottish Borders | 06-06-2021 | 2979 | 5140 |
Scottish Borders | 13-06-2021 | 2297 | 2910 |
Scottish Borders | 20-06-2021 | 1511 | 5116 |
Scottish Borders | 22-06-2021 | 1966 | 81 |
- Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 June 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what the COVID-19 infection rate for people with (a) asthma, (b) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), (c) idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), (d) bronchiectasis and (e) obstructive sleep apnoea has been in each month since March 2020.
Answer
This information is not held by the Scottish Government. Information on positive COVID-19 cases is published daily by Public Health Scotland, however, this is not currently broken down by pre-existing health condition.
- Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 June 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many people with (a) asthma, (b) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), (c) idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF), (d) bronchiectasis and (e) obstructive sleep apnoea have been diagnosed with long COVID in each month since March 2020.
Answer
This information is not held by the Scottish Government. Information on the prevalence of ongoing symptoms following coronavirus (COVID-19) infection is collected and reported by the Office for National Statistics, but is not broken down for these specific conditions.