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The information requested on Health Board admissions to Mother and Baby Units is not held centrally. However, Mother and Baby Units in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Lothian may have this data available through local data systems. Both Mother and Baby Units also participate in the Clinical Audit System referenced in S6W-08970 on 20 June 2022 which supports Mother and Baby Units in further developing and improving the provision they offer.

Additionally, the Scottish Government Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board is looking at this question as part of the work following the Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) Inpatient Provision Consultation which closed on 31 May 2022.

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

Board’s baseline revenue allocations are set out annually in the Scottish Budget, as published on the Scottish Government’s website. In addition, resource and capital spending limits are reported in Board’s annual accounts, which are published on their websites.

Over the period from 2013-14 to 2022-23, NHS Fife’s baseline resource budget has increased by almost 39% (£209.9 million) .

In addition to baseline capital funding, significant additional investment has been provided to NHS Fife to fund infrastructure projects, including £20.5 million for the National Treatment Centre Orthopaedics Unit.

The Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) Inpatient Provision Consultation closed on 31 May 2022. While more detailed work on the outcomes of this consultation is underway, we are expecting NHS Grampian and NHS Forth Valley to enter into contractual agreements with a Mother and Baby Unit in line with the other territorial Health Boards.

The Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board and Perinatal Mental Health Managed Clinical Network Scotland will provide support to Boards in setting up these arrangements. We are in the process of meeting with MBU host Boards and NHS Forth Valley and NHS Grampian to discuss how to best ensure access for women and their infants.

Until these arrangements are in place, women residing within any Health Board area in Scotland are still able to access the specialist regional provision in a Mother and Baby Unit if clinically appropriate. Admission is based on clinical need rather than geography.

For 2021-22 and 2022-23, I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-08999 on 20 June 2022. 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

Future year’s planned expenditure will be determined and set out in each year’s Scottish Budget.

The Scottish Government takes the issue of Scotland’s declining populations of wild Atlantic salmon very seriously and is working to ensure the protection and recovery of this iconic species. In January 2022 the Scottish Government published the Wild Salmon Strategy which provides an overarching framework for the actions required to tackle the range of pressures affecting wild salmon. The Strategy can be accessed at Scottish Wild Salmon Strategy - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

A commitment made in the Strategy is to undertake a study to identify the socio-economic benefits arising from healthy wild Atlantic salmon populations and how these can be maximised through partnerships between the public, private and charitable sectors. Furthermore, this study will allow comparisons to be made between the current economic value of the recreational fisheries sector to past values.

The most recent socio-economic study was conducted in 2017 and showed that recreational fisheries in Scotland contributed £79.9m Gross Value Added and 4300 FTE jobs. It is important to note that, although this study was published in 2017, it was based on data from 2014/15 when coastal netting was still in place. It is anticipated that the subsequent prohibition on coastal netting is likely to have had an effect on the economic value.

Each financial year, NHS Boards are typically required to deliver a level of efficiency savings to deliver financial balance. Efficiency savings are how health boards ensure they are making the best possible use of public money and every penny of efficiency savings stays with the health boards.

We are working closely with all NHS Boards to address financial pressures facing the system, whilst ensuring that patient safety and Covid recovery remain the priority.

Since the start of the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board we have invested over £18m in improvements to services and support for parents, infants and families across Scotland. This includes £5.5m for development of specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health services.

Funding levels for each Board have been primarily based on the gaps identified in Delivering Effective Services Report – Perinatal Mental Health Network Scotland and further shaped through discussions with each Board to ensure funding meets local need. As the we progress the programme of work, allocations are transitioning to an NRAC share which is the Scottish Resource Allocation formula used to distribute funding to NHS Boards.

Initial development funding was provided to two Health Boards in the North of Scotland in 2019-20. Funding was then rolled out to all mainland Boards in 2020/21 and all Boards received an allocation in 2021-22.

Following conclusion of the current Programme Board in March 2023, £8m per annum has been earmarked as recurring funding to Health Boards to support the sustainability of perinatal and infant mental health services across Scotland. This includes £5m specifically for specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health services.

Please see the following tables for a breakdown of funding allocated per Board for specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health services for the last 3 financial years.

The information requested relating to non-Mother and Baby Unit adult mental health inpatient admissions during the pregnancy or the postnatal period is not held centrally. However, the Scottish Government Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board is looking at this question as part of the work following the Mother and Baby Unit (MBU) Inpatient Provision Consultation which closed on 31 May 2022.

A national Perinatal Mental Health Dataset for specialist Community Perinatal Mental Health services (as well as Mother and Baby Units and Maternity/Neonatal Psychological Interventions services) has recently been launched by the Perinatal Mental Health Managed Clinical Network. It is currently being rolled out across Health Boards. The dataset builds upon a previous Clinical Audit System which reported on a limited number of clinical indicators for Mother and Baby Units. The Perinatal Mental Health Dataset will include a range of indicators of clinical activity, recorded by local specialist teams. It will be used to support local service development and quality improvement. The dataset will act as a tool to support Health Boards with local improvement in service planning and delivery, enabling them to understand and respond to local need.

The Transition & Recovery Plan, published in October 2020 and backed by an additional £120m of funding, is transforming services, with a renewed focus on prevention and early intervention. A key commitment in the Transition and Recovery plan is to support the collaborative development, implementation and assessment of quality standards for mental health services. To help ensure that services deliver and measure Psychological Therapies in a more standardised way across Scotland, a new national standard for Psychological Services and Therapies is currently under development with a publication date of Summer 2022.

As part of our investment in Mental Health and Wellbeing in Primary Care Services we will ensure that local planning groups, and in particular local primary care mental health services, are fully aware of the resources and services available for perinatal mental health and are supplied with clear guidance on how to support women and families in accessing these services. This will include support to access wider mental health support hubs, groups and helplines.

COSLA leaders and Ministers have now agreed the funding package to support the development of Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategies (LHEES) for the 2022-23 financial year. This funding package will be treated as a redetermination of the General Revenue Grant and paid in the last 2 weeks of March 2023. This funding could be used to cover internal resourcing and/or procurement of external technical services. Scottish Government officials have already communicated the agreement of the funding to local authorities and will also provide further guarantees and details via COSLA's official channels in due course .