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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)
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Question reference: S6W-29038

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 26 August 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how many vacancies currently exist for NHS non-Executive Whistleblowing Champions, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S6W-29054

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 26 August 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-15885 by Angus Robertson on 24 March 2023, whether the National Records of Scotland remains committed to maintaining a website for the Scottish Register of Tartans, in light of its digital strategy, and, if so, whether it now has plans to modernise the user interface of the website.

I have asked Janet Egdell, Chief Executive of NRS to respond. Her response is that the National Records of Scotland (NRS) are responsible for the Scottish Register of Tartans website.

NRS remains committed to maintaining a website to support the Scottish Register of Tartans. There are no current plans to update the user interface of the Scottish Register of Tartans website.

NRS are focused on the launch of the refreshed Scotland’s People website during September 2024 and work will then follow to consider all website provision.

Question reference: S6W-29062

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 26 August 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether the topic of Scottish independence was discussed in the meeting between the Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture and MEPs from the European Parliament’s Culture and Education (CULT) Committee on 24 January 2024.

Question reference: S6W-29063

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 26 August 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether the topic of Scottish independence was discussed in the meeting between the Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture and the Minister-President of Flanders on 25 January 2024.

Question reference: S6W-29066

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 26 August 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether the topic of Scottish independence was discussed in the meeting between the Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture and the Ambassador of Austria to the EU on 25 January 2024.

Question reference: S6W-29064

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 26 August 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether the topic of Scottish independence was discussed in the meeting between the Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture and the Ambassador of Norway to the EU on 25 January 2024.

Question reference: S6W-29058

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 26 August 2024

Question reference: S6W-29040

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 26 August 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how any instances of bullying and harassment have been recorded in NHS Scotland in each year since 2021, also broken down by NHS board.

Please see the breakdown of recorded bullying and harassment cases as advised by each NHS Board through Staff Governance Monitoring returns from 2021 in the following table. Please note, recorded cases for 2023-24 are not yet available centrally.

As defined in the policy, there are two stages to raise bullying and harassment concerns. Early resolution cases are resolved at the earliest opportunity by informing the other party of the impact of their behaviour or actions. If early resolution is unsuccessful or inappropriate, cases can be raised formally.

	2021-22	2022-23
NHSScotland Boards	Early Resolution	Formal Complaint	Early Resolution	Formal Complaint
NHS Ayrshire and Arran	3	8	0	16
NHS Borders	8	2	6	8
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	8	4	25	1
NHS Fife	0	11	0	5
NHS Forth Valley	9	1	11	1
NHS Grampian	7	16	9	3
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	0	9	0	44
NHS Golden Jubilee	2	2	2	4
NHS Health Improvement Scotland	0	0	0	0
NHS Highland	30	5	10	20
NHS Lanarkshire	0	14	0	19
NHS Lothian	5	41	0	23
NHS24	0	4	6	4
NHS Education for Scotland	1	1	3	0
NHS National Services Scotland	3	1	1	5
NHS Orkney	2	0	0	0
NHS Public Health Scotland	1	1	1	1
NHS Shetland	2	1	7	4
NHS Scottish Ambulance Service	27	0	9	14
NHS State Hospital	0	3	0	4
NHS Tayside	1	20	0	30
Western Isles	0	4	1	4
NHSScotland	109	148	91	210

(Source: Staff Governance Monitoring Annual Board Returns)

Question reference: S6W-29065

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 26 August 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether the topic of Scottish independence was discussed in the meeting between the Cabinet Secretary for Constitution, External Affairs and Culture and the Ambassador of Denmark to the UK on 25 January 2024.

Question reference: S6W-28961

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 23 August 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it considered investing in new canals as part of the second Strategic Transport Projects Review (STPR2).

Canals in Scotland were not considered during the second Strategic Transport Projects Review, as water-based transport on canals and estuaries (such as water taxis) were deemed to be out of scope of the review, as noted in the Appendix A of the. Final technical report - December 2022 - STPR2 | Transport Scotland

The Scottish Government laid out their plans for the canal network in the 2013 publication HYPERLINK "" Making the most of Scotland’s canals | Transport Scotland based on the following seven principles:

Valuing the heritage of our canals
Fulfilling statutory and regulatory obligations
Risk management and safety
Increasing awareness of the potential contribution which canals can make
Delivering a high quality experience
Working through partnership and collaboration
Monitoring and measuring outcomes