- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 19 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Kevin Stewart on 8 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether the (a) sexual orientation and (b) gender identity of people accessing mental health services is routinely recorded.
Answer
This information is not routinely recorded at present. The Scottish Government has commissioned Directors of eHealth in NHS Boards, working with others, including Public Health Scotland (PHS), to work to improve the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) digital infrastructure. This will enable the recording and extraction of the full CAMHS and Psychological Therapies (PT) National Dataset (CAPTND), which contains equalities characteristics of patients accessing these services.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Kevin Stewart on 8 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what additional resources it will provide to Edinburgh City Council to address the reported social care issues in the city.
Answer
Additional funding of £10.881 million has been provided to Edinburgh City Council for the remainder of the financial year 2021-22. These additional funds are to support: the standing up of interim care arrangements (£3.567 million); enhancing multi-disciplinary team working (£1.784 million) and expanding care at home capacity (£5.53 million).
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 December 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Ivan McKee on 8 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what recent estimate it has made of the number of small and medium-sized enterprises that have closed in the Central Scotland region, broken down by month since June 2020.
Answer
Business births, deaths and survival rates - based on VAT/PAYE registrations and de-registrations - are produced by the Office for National Statistics within their Business Demography publications. Data are not published for parliamentary regions, however data are available by local authority area. Data are not available on a monthly basis, only on a calendar year basis. Tables 2.1(a), (b) and (c) at the link below provide the business deaths by local authority areas, in Scotland, for 2015 to 2020.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/datasets/businessdemographyreferencetable
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 8 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-04529 by Mairi Gougeon on 26 November 2021, how many hectares of peatland will be restored under the scheme as a result of the 251 successful applications, and how many hectares in total were the subject of the 49 unsuccessful applications.
Answer
The Agri-environment Climate Scheme (AECS) does not contain a standalone Peatland Restoration option. AECS contributes to peatland restoration indirectly, mainly through the funding of certain capital items.
As there is no AECS contract data regarding the area of peatland under management it is not possible to report on the area of peatland restoration contribution related to AECS.
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 8 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been diagnosed with (a) malnutrition and (b) conditions associated with malnutrition in the last year.
Answer
Information on the number of people diagnosed with malnutrition and associated conditions is not held centrally.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 8 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that chronic pain patients receive pain relief injections when they are scheduled to do so.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-04313 on 3 December 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.
Further to this answer, I can update that the public consultation on the draft Framework for Pain Management Service Delivery is now available at https://www.gov.scot/publications/draft-framework-chronic-pain-service-delivery .
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Ash Regan on 8 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when statistics on liquor licensing will next be published.
Answer
The Scottish Government intends to publish the 2019-2020 liquor licensing statistics by mid-December 2021. Work is also currently underway to ingather the relevant information for the 2020-2021 liquor licensing statistics from individual independent Licensing Boards with the intention of publishing this data in early March 2022.
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 8 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the availability of emotional support for women with hirsutism.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-04721 on 8 December 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 .
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 8 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to (a) facilitate access to financial redress for, (b) increase medical research into and (c) find a cure for polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-04721 on 8 December 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 .
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 8 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much financial support it has provided to GP practices to help women with polycystic ovary syndrome (PCOS).
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-04721 on 8 December 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 .