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The Scottish Government is satisfied that the industry protocols developed by the UK Chamber of Shipping represent current best practice. These have been fully considered by the Scottish Government and approved for use as part of our Guidance for domestic cruise operators which can be found here: Coronavirus (COVID-19): travel and transport - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) .

Cruise must however be considered in the wider health context and due to the upward trajectory in Covid cases, concerns around the more transmissible Delta variant and the potential to transfer Covid (that has a relatively long asymptomatic incubation period) to multiple touchpoints across different locations, even with the use of near-person testing regimens, the Scottish Government has recommended that cruise start when all of Scotland reaches level 1. Once cruising can commence, these protocols will stand the industry in good stead, allowing for a quick and safe resumption of activity.

Between 1 May 2021 and 30 June 2021, Marine Scotland have inspected 11 Wrasse fishing vessel catches and found no infringements of the license derogation conditions.

The Scottish Government publishes summaries of the latest key economic statistics and analysis on the Scottish Economy in its Monthly Economic Brief, available at:

https://www.gov.scot/collections/monthly-economic-briefs/

The Scottish Government’s last outlook for the economy was published in the December 2020 edition, before the furlough scheme was extended to September. However, the latest analysis from the Bank of England is for unemployment to peak at 5.5% in 2021 as the furlough scheme ends, broadly in range with the latest forecasts from other independent forecasters.

The next set of forecasts for the Scottish economy will be published by the Scottish Fiscal Commission on Thursday 26 August.

From 21 June 2021, the Scottish Government brought forward the second COVID-19 vaccination dose to eight weeks.

This week sees the launch of the online self-registration portal, see Registering for a coronavirus vaccine | The coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine (nhsinform.scot) . Anyone aged 18 and over who has not received a first coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination appointment or has missed their first dose for any reason is being invited to self-register for an appointment.

The programme is under continuous review to optimise the vaccination delivery roll-out in partnership with the nation’s health boards, ensuring its more people-centred. Other recent innovations include the launching of Vaccine appointment checker | The coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccine (nhsinform.scot) and drop-in centres.

Anyone aged 18 and over who has not received a first coronavirus (COVID-19) vaccination appointment or has missed their first dose for any reason is being invited to self-register for an appointment.

The Scottish Government has not conducted a national gap analysis across all mental health services. However, within our programme of enhanced improvement support to seven Boards, we have undertaken demand and capacity modelling to inform local improvement plans for CAMHS and Psychological Therapies, with the aim of meeting the waiting times standards and clearing backlogs by end March 2023. This support, where required, will be extended to the remaining Boards over 2021-22.

To date we have spent £478,975.94 on the Protect Scotland - Proximity Tracing App and the Federated Server. The costs are broken down in the following table:

See “Monthly Service Support Costs” and “Service Support Costs to date” columns in the table attached to reply for S6W-00765 on 30 June 2021.

All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers

The Transvaginal Mesh Removal (Cost Reimbursement) (Scotland) Bill was introduced on 23 June 2021. It is published on the Scottish Parliament website .

The total number of downloads of the app are shown in the table attached in reply to S6W-00767 on 30 June 2021. The functionality to count the number of active daily app users has been improved since launch and currently indicates that there are around 980,000 active users each day.

All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers

a) The app does not identify anyone it is completely anonymous b) we do record the number of people that are advised by the app to self-isolate on a daily basis (see the “Contacts Advised to Self-Isolate” column in the following table).