This answer responds to S5W-22808, S5W-22809, S5W-22810, S5W-22811 and S5W-22812 on 7 May 2019. The Scottish Government Chief Scientist Office (CSO) does not target funding towards any particular condition through its research grant schemes but supports research funding opportunities across a very broad health remit that neither advantages or disadvantages funding towards any particular health area. This allows consideration of research applications to address the widest range of NHS, health and care challenges rather than to focus funding in certain areas and consequently deprioritise others. Applications submitted to CSO are funded following independent expert assessment of the quality of the research projects proposed with funding recommendations made by an independent expert committee.

The Scottish Funding Council (SFC) does not provide funding specifically for physical or mental health research. It is for Universities to decide whether they undertake such research using SFC grants.

All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx .

This information is not collected or held centrally to the level of detail requested. It is for NHS Boards to determine spend on drugs and other blood cancer treatment services from their unified budget in accordance with the needs of their resident population and based on clinical decisions. This will vary from Board to Board and Region to Region.

Treatment, particularly for cancer, can be complex and often involves the use of a combination of medicines. Many of the drugs can be used for treatment of other cancer and non-cancer conditions, which makes it difficult to calculate the cost of drugs for specific treatments such as blood cancer.

I refer the member to the answer to S5W-22808 on 7 May 2019. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx .

The Scottish Government is clear that we need to ensure we appoint the right person for what will be a complex and important review. As there will be an emphasis on engaging widely, the review will have to get to the heart of differing opinions so that the real issues can be fleshed out and then considered on an evidence-led basis. The Chair therefore will provide strong leadership and will have demonstrated that they are an effective strategist and a good networker. We are also looking for someone who can give a clear sense of direction and who is able to communicate clearly to a wide and varied audience. The Chair will have senior level experience, knowledge and understanding of legislation and/or human rights.

A short-life working group will support the review and will be drawn from areas of interest. We expect to have representatives from legal, psychiatry, social work, nursing and service management backgrounds as well as those with lived experience. It will be for the Chair to determine how they take forward this review but the views of people with lived experience of compulsory care and treatment, their families and representatives must be central to the work of the review.

In July 2018, the Scottish Government published A Healthier Future: Scotland’s Diet & Healthy Weight Delivery Plan . Our ambition is to halve childhood obesity by 2030, and significantly reduce diet-related health inequalities. We undertook wide consultation with stakeholders in developing the plan, and had numerous discussions with ministers and officials that have informed our proposals.

The Scottish Health Survey provides a breakdown of the prevalence of obesity at Scotland level for adults and children by age and gender.

Adult obesity by gender in each of the last five calendar years is available here:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-health-survey-2017-volume-1-main-report/pages/98/

Adults obesity by age is available in the reports for each year. The 2017 breakdown is available here https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-health-Children time sersurvey-2017-volume-1-main-report/pages/99/

Child obesity by gender for each year is available here:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-health-survey-2017-volume-1-main-report/pages/100/

Child obesity by age is available in the reports for each year. The 2017 breakdown is available here:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-health-survey-2017-volume-1-main-report/pages/101/

The Scottish Health Survey also provides prevalence of obesity for adults by gender for each NHS Board, using four years of data combined:

https://www.gov.scot/publications/scottish-health-survey-results-local-areas-2014-2015-2016-2017/pages/3/

The sample size of the Scottish Health Survey is not sufficient to provide a breakdown of child obesity by NHS Board.

Data showing the proportion of children in P1 (aged 4 ½ - 6 ¼) at risk of obesity in each NHS board area, in each of the last five calendar years, is available in the Body Mass Index of Primary 1 Children in Scotland dashboard. This is broken down by gender in the ‘how does BMI vary by sex?’ tab:

https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Child-Health/Publications/2018-12-11/visualisation.asp

The Scottish Government wants everyone in Scotland, no matter where they live, to eat well and have a healthy weight. That is why reducing diet-related health inequalities is a primary objective of our Diet and Healthy Weight Delivery Plan.

This will be achieved through a broad range of action focussed on prevention and early intervention. This includes population level interventions, such as restricting the promotion of junk food, which will support everyone in Scotland to make healthier choices, and through targeted and tailored support specifically to those individuals, children and families who need it most.

We must also tackle root causes of poverty and inequality. Since they are symptomatic of wider social inequalities, we are taking decisive action on a number of fronts. That includes action to end poverty, support fair wages, help families, and improve our physical and social environments. We also invested over £125m in 2018-19 on welfare mitigation and measures to protect those on low incomes in the face of UK Government’s cuts. And we are establishing Public Health Scotland which will take a leading role in tackling health inequalities.

The Scottish Government has funded access to free sanitary products in schools, colleges and universities since August 2018 and as yet we do not yet have a complete data set.

Based on available data from 20 (out of 24) colleges in Scotland, 856,550 sanitary products were purchased by colleges between September 2018 and February 2019.

And available data from 17 (out of 18) universities in Scotland shows 1,756,618 sanitary products were purchased by universities between September 2018 and February 2019.

With reference to schools, we do not yet have confirmed data from local authorities.

Provision of free sanitary products in hospitals is a matter for NHS Scotland Health Boards and we do not hold data on this centrally.

The Scottish Government published guidance relating to the new ultra-orphan pathway on 30 April 2019. It can be viewed at the following link: https://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/details.asp?PublicationID=6485 .

The Scottish Government published guidance relating to the new ultra-orphan pathway on 30 April 2019. It can be viewed at the following link: https://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/details.asp?PublicationID=6485 .