Questions and answers

Question reference: S6W-14318

Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 26 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 6 February 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how it enforces the requirement that shooting takes place from below the high water mark at estuarine and coastal locations.

Question reference: S6W-14039

Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 31 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what research it has collected on the potential impact of long-term use of e-cigarettes on the lungs of people with lung conditions.

Question reference: S6W-14038

Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 31 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made in updating the Tobacco Action Plan, and on what dates the (a) external and (b) internal working groups met to discuss the new Tobacco Action Plan.

The Scottish Government continues to make progress on drafting the refreshed Tobacco Action Plan and this is due to published in Autumn 2023.

The following table details the number of meetings of the Tobacco Action Plan - Short Life Working Groups since their inception in 2022.

Internal working group	External working group
21 April 2022	13 January 2022
25 May 2022	28 January 2022
4 July 2022	21 March 202
2 August 2022	17 August 2022

Question reference: S6W-14034

Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 31 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of progress made regarding each of the commitments of the Respiratory Care Action Plan according to those (a) achieved, (b) in progress and (c) not yet started.

Question reference: S6W-14032

Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 31 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made on implementing the commitments of the Respiratory Care Action Plan.

Since publication of the Respiratory Care Action Plan in 2021, we have established the Scottish Respiratory Advisory Committee (SRAC) to provide governance and oversight of its implementation.Three priority areas for Year 1 were identified by the SRAC and progress to date includes:

Formation of the Pulmonary Rehab (PR) sub-group, comprised of clinical specialists and service managers from across Scotland, to develop ‘Best practice guidance’ for delivery of PR services.
Formation of a Child to Adult Transition group to develop best practice guidance for transitions in Asthma services initially.
Workshops held to agree a way forward with respiratory data.

Question reference: S6W-14033

Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 31 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government when the (a) Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care and (b) Minister for Public Health, Women’s Health and Sport last met with (i) the chair of the Scottish Respiratory Advisory Committee and (ii) lead clinicians involved in the implementation of the Respiratory Care Action Plan.

Question reference: S6T-01146

Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 30 January 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to a recent study conducted by the Scottish Retail Consortium, which found that one in six shops are lying empty in Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-14037

Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 30 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with (a) the UK Government and (a) other devolved governments regarding the (i) marketing, (ii) availability (including flavouring) and (iii) packaging of vaping and e-cigarette products.

Question reference: S6W-13354

Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Friday, 23 December 2022
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent, other than the funding allocated to local authorities, for the purpose of tobacco control in each year since 2017-18.

The following table shows the amount spent by the Tobacco Team in each year since 2017-18. Due to way in which spend is recorded it is not possible to disaggregate Tobacco Control spend from overall Tobacco spend. Also please note that 2022-23 spend is not included as this financial year has not yet concluded.

		2017-2018	2018-2019	2019-2020	2020-2021	2021-2022
Regular stakeholder grants	ASH Scotland	£657,268	£610,900	£669,250	£669,250	£724,543
	Scottish Student Sport	£0	£0	£11,500	£26,315	£27,420
	The Society of Chief Officers of Trading Standards In Scotland	£30,000	£62,500	£62,500	£55,000	£232,000*
	Rest of Tobacco Funding	£207,334.55	£385,885.73	£82,748.81	£44,325.26	£58,382.24
Total		£894,602.55	£1,059,285.73	£825,998.81	£794,890.26	£1,042,345.24

*Includes funding for Operation CeCe

I also refer the member to the answer to questions S6W-12229 on Health Board funding allocations for cessation services on 30 November 2022 and S6W-12227 on Local Authority Tobacco Control funding on 30 November 2022 which provide additional detail on Scottish Government Tobacco spend. 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

Question reference: S6W-13355

Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Monday, 19 December 2022
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 16 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many full-time equivalent staff, broken down by grade, have worked on tobacco policy within its Health Improvement Division in each year since 2017-18.

The following table details the number of full-time equivalent staff, broken down by grade, who have worked on tobacco policy within Health Improvement Division since 2017-18.

Please note the following:

numbers do not equate to head count within Health Improvement Division.
vacancies have not been included.
numbers have been compiled using historic Scottish Government HR records
during 2020/21 some staff would have focused on COVID pandemic response work

	31 March 2017	31 March 2018	31 March 2019	31 March 2020	31 March 2021	31 March 2022	10 January 2023
C2	-	-	-	-	0.5	0.5	0.9
C1	1	1	1	1	1	1	0.6
B3	1	1	1	1	1	1	-
B2	1	1	1	1	1	1	1
B1	-	1	1	1		1	1
A4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-
Total	4	4	4	4	3.5	4.5	3.5

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