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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: S6W-00767

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 30 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been (a) identified and (b) contacted through the NHS Scotland Protect Scotland app in each month since its launch.

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).

Month	Total Downloads	Contacts
Month	Total Downloads	Advised to Self-Isolate
September 2020	1,306,529	2,015
October 2020	1,568,923	10,007
November 2020	1,672,309	9,359
December 2020	1,745,259	8,065
January 2021	1,805,953	7,585
February 2021	1,839,805	3,858
March 2021	1,865,245	2,597
April 2021	1,891,293	956
May 2021	1,938,958	911
16 June 2021	1,969,571	1,893

Question reference: S6W-00766

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 30 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what the cost of maintaining and operating the NHS Scotland Protect Scotland app has been in each month since its launch.

Question reference: S6W-00807

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 30 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made with introducing legislation to support people affected by mesh implants.

Question reference: S6W-00729

Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 30 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many students from outwith the Common Travel Area it estimates will arrive in Scotland for the start of the 2021-22 academic year.

In the academic year 2019-20, the latest for which we have complete data, there were around 60,000 students from outside the Common travel area enrolling at a Scottish University, with around half this number (30,000) beginning a new course and the other half returning for a further year. The Scottish Government does not hold information about how many of these students were resident in Scotland prior to enrolment. We estimate a similar number could be studying in Scotland in the academic year 2021-22.

Question reference: S6W-01128

Asked by: Gordon MacDonald, MSP for Edinburgh Pentlands, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 June 2021
Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the COVID-19 legislation in place.

Amending Regulations were made to the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 today.

These Regulations amend the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Regulations 2020.

These Regulations remove the travel restrictions which are currently in place in relation to travel between Scotland and Manchester, Bolton and Salford. These restrictions are being removed due to changes in the epidemiological position for those areas. These changes will take effect on 30 June 2021.

The Regulations have been published at www.legislation.gov.uk/id/ssi/2021/255 .

Question reference: S6W-01123

Asked by: Gordon MacDonald, MSP for Edinburgh Pentlands, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 June 2021
Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the coronavirus legislation in place.

We will be removing the travel restrictions which are currently in place in relation to travel between Scotland and Manchester, Bolton and Salford. These restrictions are being removed due to changes in the epidemiological position for those areas. Regulations amending the Health Protection (Coronavirus) (Restrictions and Requirements) (Local Levels) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 will be made today and will take effect on 30 June 2021. Restrictions between Scotland and Blackburn with Darwen will remain in place.

Question reference: S6W-00876

Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what action it can take to support the catering and hospitality sector in incorporating into training courses lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic regarding the importance of effective ventilation systems in preventing the spread of airborne viruses.

The Scottish Government has engaged with a range of sectors, including catering and hospitality representatives, promoting the benefits of effective ventilation to reduce the risk of transmission within enclosed spaces. I would encourage all sectors to review the guidance we produced on ventilation, as this contains useful information and assets which could easily be incorporated within training courses.

The guidance can be found at: https://www.gov.scot/publications/coronavirus-covid-19-ventilation-guidance/

We continue to engage with sectors and review this guidance as new evidence emerges regarding how these systems can prevent the spread of COVID-19 and other airborne viruses.

Question reference: S6W-00750

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many empty (a) private, and (b) public sector residential properties there have been in each local authority area in the South Scotland parliamentary region, in each year since 2011.

Question reference: S6W-01006

Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 29 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has carried out or plans of the economic impact of preventing domestic cruise operations from restarting.

As with all decisions relating to the relaxation of restrictions, this has been given thorough consideration through the 4 Harms process which has included consideration of the economic harm. Since the beginning of the pandemic we have worked closely with the industry to identify the impact on the sector and mitigations that would be necessary to allow domestic cruise restart. We recognise that the tourism sector, including cruise, has strongly felt the impact of restrictions and our aim has always been to enable cruise restart as quickly and safely as possible.

Question reference: S6W-00910

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-00481 by Maree Todd on 17 June 2021, whether it plans to introduce legislation that would mean that menus without calorie amounts are available on request in all hospitality settings.