The 2026-27 budget has not yet been passed by Parliament and is at draft stage. Provisionally, some of the budget will cover the £18.180 million required for the ongoing cost of consumables for people who received diabetes technologies through our national roll-out programme in years 2024-25 and 2025-26.

There is a spending commitment of £4.5 million to NHS Boards to deliver specialist support for those living with Long COVID, Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME)/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) and other similar conditions. We have also committed a further £100,000 to continue to support the Rare Disease Action Plan.

This information is available in table L2.1 of the supplementary tables accompanying the Summary Statistics for Attainment and Initial Leaver Destinations (SSAILD) publication which is available on our website.

Supporting documents - Summary Statistics for Attainment and Initial Leaver Destinations, No. 7: 2025 edition - gov.scot

The time series for this data begins in 2009-10. Data is not available for earlier years.

Officer training and the associated resources and capacity in how Police Scotland respond to incidents involving unexploded ordnance are operational policing decisions for the Chief Constable, under the scrutiny of the Scottish Police Authority (SPA), as is how they work with other agencies on this issue.

It is for the Chief Constable, working with the working with the Scottish Police Authority, to determine how to allocate its budget to meet policing priorities including the provision of all necessary training. For the last ten years, the Scottish Government has increased the SPA budget year on year. We will invest record funding of over £1.7 billion for policing in 2026-27, a total budget increase of £81.5m or 5% compared to the published 2025-26 Autumn Budget Revision (ABR) budget.

For the years 2010-11 to 2024-25 the Scottish Government’s school estates data collection makes a distinction between schools built and those refurbished, while for the years 2007-08 to 2009-10 no such distinction was made in the data collection.

Table 1 provides statistics on the number of schools built/refurbished by sector in each local authority between 2007-08 and 2009-10.

Statistics on the number of schools built by sector and local authority since 2010-11 are provided in Table 2, while Table 3 provides the corresponding statistics for refurbished schools.

Across all years, only schools where the total cost of the works (build or refurbishment) was £500,000 or more for primary schools or £1 million or more for secondary and special schools are included.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-42968 on 26 January 2026. 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

The Scottish Government is committed to ensuring that all children and young people receive a broad, inclusive, and supportive education that meets their individual needs. Within Curriculum for Excellence, health and wellbeing is a key area of learning and a shared responsibility across the school community.

While the Experiences and Outcomes within Health and Wellbeing and Science currently do not refer explicitly to musculoskeletal conditions, in Health and Wellbeing, they do provide a framework for exploring the positive impact of physical activity on learning, resilience, and quality of life. Schools are encouraged to tailor this learning to reflect the needs and experiences of their learners, including increasing awareness and understanding of long-term health conditions where appropriate.

The guidance on supporting children and young people with healthcare needs in schools includes advice on what to do in the event of a possible severe allergic reaction from a pupil who has not been diagnosed with, or experienced, this reaction previously and also advice on what to do for those where an allergy is known.

The guidance states that schools may administer their "spare" adrenaline auto-injector (AAI) device for a pupil at risk of anaphylaxis, where both medical authorisation and written parental consent for use of the spare AAI device has been provided.

Paragraph 25 of the guidance also sets out what schools should do in the event of a possible severe allergic reaction in a pupil who has not been diagnosed or experienced this reaction previously. This paragraph states that in these circumstances the emergency services should be contacted on 999 and advice sought from them as to whether administration of the school’s spare emergency AAI would be appropriate. The Healthcare in Schools Guidance is available from Supporting children and young people with healthcare needs in schools: guidance - gov.scot.

The Scottish Government does not have any contracts for Starlink products with SpaceX. The Scottish Government does not have any contracts with SpaceX.

Social Security Scotland is committed to making the right decision first time by ensuring it has the information needed to make robust, person-centred decisions, based on a thorough understanding of how an individual’s disability or long-term health condition affects their daily life.

Latest statistics show that, by 31 October 2025, 53% of Adult Disability Payment appeals decided by the First-tier Tribunal were upheld in favour of the client. This compares with 66% of Personal Independence Payment appeals over the past five years, rising to 74% when including lapsed appeals where the DWP changed its decision prior to a tribunal hearing.

The Scottish social security system has been co-designed with people who have lived experience, ensuring that processes for challenging decisions are accessible and support clients to engage confidently. During the appeal process, people can provide further information directly to the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland.

Social Security Scotland continuously evaluates decision-making quality across all benefits. A tribunal reaching a different conclusion reflects the evidence available at the time of the hearing, rather than necessarily the quality of the original decision. Tribunal decisions are reviewed to identify any errors of law and to inform continuous improvement.

It is the statutory responsibility of the Health and Social Care Partnerships and NHS Health Boards to meet the need of any individual assessed as needing home adaptations and therefore, the Scottish Government do not hold this information. Information collected from Public Health Scotland does not include diagnostic related information on the patients experiencing a delay to their discharge, so it is not possible to specifically identify cancer patients experiencing a delay from the delayed discharges dataset.

With regards to introducing a fast-track adaptation scheme please note that as set out in our Housing to 2040 strategy, we are taking forward a review of the current housing adaptations system to consider how the process can be streamlined, made easier and quicker for people who need adaptations, including palliative patients.