- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Ash Regan on 2 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any plans to review the use of mosquito devices in Scotland.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-09757 on 2 August 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
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Ash Regan on 2 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the position of the Children and Young People's Commissioner Scotland that the use of mosquito devices infringes a number of rights in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC).
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-09757 on 2 August 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
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Ash Regan on 2 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the use of mosquito devices to deter the gathering of young people, and whether it considers that the use of such devices should be legal.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-09757 on 2 August 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
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Ash Regan on 26 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to promote the Charter for Grandchildren.
Answer
The Charter for Grandchildren aims to highlight the role of the wider family. The Charter is available at the link below:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/parenting-plan-charter-grandchildren/ .
In the Family Justice Modernisation Strategy (FJMS) the Scottish Government committed to promote the Charter for Grandchildren. The FJMS is available at the link below:
https://www.gov.scot/publications/family-justice-modernisation-strategy/pages/1/ .
The Scottish Government is reviewing the actions in the FJMS and will consider prioritising work to promote the Charter for Grandchildren following delays during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The steps the Scottish Government intends to take to promote the Charter include engaging with key bodies to raise awareness and ensuring information on the Charter is more widely available.
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-07576 by Humza Yousaf on 18 May 2022, how much of the £5 million that it provided for the financial year 2020-21 to support the wellbeing of people working in health, social care and social work was spent; how much it has provided for 2021-22, and how much of that has been spent.
Answer
In financial year 2021-22, £12m was allocated to support the wellbeing of people working in health and social care of which £11,515,152 was spent.
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 July 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by George Adam on 19 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many times it has exceeded the time limit for responding to (a) freedom of information requests, (b) written parliamentary questions and (c) letters to ministers.
Answer
The Scottish Government remains committed to answering all correspondence as quickly as possible and within agreed timescales. This question has been interpreted to be seeking figures from the start of session 6 to date.
a) The Scottish Government responded to 2750 freedom of information requests within the statutory 20 working day deadline during this period. The time limit was exceeded 470 times. FOI performance figures are published on monthly basis on the Scottish Government website: https://www.gov.scot/publications/freedom-of-information-foi-reporting/ .
b) The Scottish Government produces statistics, available from the Scottish Parliament Information Centre, which show how many written parliamentary questions were answered after the substantive date.
c) A high volume of Ministerial correspondence was received by the Scottish Government during this period. Of the 44991 pieces of correspondence received, 77% were answered on time with 10370 exceeding the response deadline.
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 18 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take to ensure that all serving police officers have timely access to hepatitis vaccines, in light of reports that there are no available appointments.
Answer
The Scottish Government is aware that Optima Health, Police Scotland’s occupational health and employee assistance programme providers, have advised that there are no issues in terms of availability of appointments at present.
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Monday, 27 June 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many Scottish Ambulance Service call-outs were alcohol related in each of the last four years.
Answer
The following table shows incidents by year that have alcohol mentioned as a possible factor by ambulance crews when completing an electronic patient record. The Scottish Ambulance Service does not specifically record alcohol-related incidents.
Calendar Year | Number of Incidents Attended |
2018 | 52596 |
2019 | 54175 |
2020 | 48655 |
2021 | 48981 |
2022 | 25931 |
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many applications to the Long COVID Support Fund from NHS boards in order to provide services for people with long COVID have been (a) accepted and (b) rejected.
Answer
Thirteen Health Boards submitted proposals to the Strategic Network on managing the long term effects of COVID-19 for how they intend to utilise long COVID Support Funding across 2022-23.
Following review by the Network’s Strategic Oversight Board, funding allocations were confirmed to all 13 Health Boards on 19 May to support the delivery of activities identified within their proposals.
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2022
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many applications to the Long COVID Support Fund have been made by NHS boards in order to provide services to people with long COVID.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-09460 on 13 July 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 .