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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S6W-00881

Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 21 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 30 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many wild wrasse fishing vessel catches have been inspected by Marine Scotland Compliance since 1 May 2021, and what infringements of licence derogation conditions have been identified.

Question reference: S6W-00807

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 30 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made with introducing legislation to support people affected by mesh implants.

Question reference: S6W-00738

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 30 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken to implement the recommendations of the Scotland Eating Disorder Service Review.

As announced in March, the recommendations from the Review will be taken forward by an Implementation Group. On the 18 June we announced that the Group will be Co-Chaired by Dennis Robertson and a clinical lead who will be confirmed shortly.

We also announced we are providing £5 million of funding to respond to the recommendations from the Review in this financial year. The majority of this funding will be provided to NHS Boards to support them in responding to the increase in eating disorder presentations due to the Covid-19 pandemic. This is Recommendation 1 from the Review. This funding is being provided from the £120 million Mental Health Recovery and Renewal Fund.

In addition, in response to Review recommendation 6 (Self-help Resources) and Recommendation 13 (Families and Carers), we are also providing funding to Beat, the UK’s Eating Disorder Charity, to provide a wide range of support options such as support to families and carers of those with an eating disorder; support for children, young people and adults who are currently waiting to be seen by services; and peer support services. We will shortly announce further details of this package of support.

Question reference: S6W-00768

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 30 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have (a) de-registered from and (b) deleted the NHS Scotland Protect Scotland app in each month since its launch.

a) The app records the number of people that have “chosen to leave” (see the “Users that chose to leave” column in the table attached in reply to S6W-00767 on 30 June 2021).

b) Due to the anonymous nature of the app there is no way to know the number of people that have deleted the app.

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

Question reference: S6W-00861

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 30 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the gap between the availability of mental health services and the demand for them.

The Scottish Government has not conducted a national gap analysis across all mental health services. However, within our programme of enhanced improvement support to seven Boards, we have undertaken demand and capacity modelling to inform local improvement plans for CAMHS and Psychological Therapies, with the aim of meeting the waiting times standards and clearing backlogs by end March 2023. This support, where required, will be extended to the remaining Boards over 2021-22.

Question reference: S6W-00815

Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 30 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many of its former ministers have sought its approval in each of the last five years to take up a position with another employer, and how many times this approval was granted.

Question reference: S6W-00765

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 30 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on the NHS Scotland Protect Scotland app.

To date we have spent £478,975.94 on the Protect Scotland - Proximity Tracing App and the Federated Server. The costs are broken down in the following table:

Supplier	Component	Initial Implementation Costs	Monthly Service Support Costs	Service Support Costs to date
NearForm	Protect Scotland App	£120,000.00	£10,000.00	£70,000.00
NearForm	Custom changes to the App (Pause Button, 12yrs+ and Isolation Payments)	£66,503.50	NA	NA
NearForm	Federated Server: Interoperability with other Proximity Tracing Apps - England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Jersey, Gibraltar	£30,000.00	£5,000.00	£40,000.00
Expleo	Proximity App and Federated Server Testing	£103,142.00	NA	NA
AWS	Cloud Hosting Environment	NA	NA	£48,338.38
UK Gov Notify	SMS Messages Sent	NA	NA	£992.06
Totals		£319,645.50	NA	£159,330.44

Question reference: S6W-00980

Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 30 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government on how many occasions the Enterprise and Skills Strategic Board has met since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and on how many occasions it is scheduled to meet in the next year.

Question reference: S6W-00952

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 21 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 30 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out of the impact that the COVID-19 pandemic will have on unemployment levels if furlough ends as currently planned.

The Scottish Government publishes summaries of the latest key economic statistics and analysis on the Scottish Economy in its Monthly Economic Brief, available at:

https://www.gov.scot/collections/monthly-economic-briefs/

The Scottish Government’s last outlook for the economy was published in the December 2020 edition, before the furlough scheme was extended to September. However, the latest analysis from the Bank of England is for unemployment to peak at 5.5% in 2021 as the furlough scheme ends, broadly in range with the latest forecasts from other independent forecasters.

The next set of forecasts for the Scottish economy will be published by the Scottish Fiscal Commission on Thursday 26 August.

Question reference: S6W-01005

Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2021
Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 30 June 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether cruise ships from the rest of the UK will be permitted to dock in Scotland from 19 July 2021, if the planned lifting of the COVID-19 restrictions takes place.