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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.

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Question reference: S6W-39813

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2025
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 22 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many Significant Adverse Event Reviews have been commissioned for a Category I adverse event in each year since 2021, broken down by NHS board.

The data requested is gathered by Healthcare Improvement Scotland and is provided in the following table.

Category 1 SAERs commissioned from Jan 2021 - Jun 2025
Board	2021	2022	2023	2024	2025
NHS 24	< 5	8	< 5	10	< 5
NHS Ayrshire & Arran	46	49	46	56	34
NHS Borders	12	18	10	15	12
NHS Dumfries & Galloway	47	47	40	42	25
NHS Fife	46	68	66	59	33
NHS Forth Valley	18	15	28	19	12
NHS Grampian	23	21	21	31	20
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde	244	272	292	317	117
NHS Highland	20	22	26	29	20
NHS Lanarkshire	50	84	107	99	64
NHS Lothian	71	91	80	94	20
NHS National Waiting Times Centre	27	18	21	12	< 5
NHS Orkney	< 5	6	8	< 5	< 5
NHS Shetland	< 5 in each year
NHS Tayside	24	22	36	40	16
NHS Western Isles	< 5 in each year
Scottish Ambulance Service	62	46	64	22	7
State Hospital	< 5 in each year
Total	700	788	852	857	389

Notes

1.The data is sourced from Healthcare Improvement Scotland’s (HIS) Significant Adverse Event Review National Notification System.

2.The data provided for 2025 is for the period from January to June 2025 only.

3.Cases where the volume is less than 5 are withheld to comply with HIS' disclosure control protocols.

4.HIS published the revised ‘Learning from adverse events through reporting and review: A national framework for Scotland’ in February 2025. Each NHS board is responsible for applying the National Framework in the context of its own local incident reporting systems and governance processes. Therefore, there remains some variation in how the National Framework is applied in practice and it is not possible to compare data on a like-for-like basis across NHS boards.

5.The notification data refers to the commissioning of SAERs for category 1 events, and not the total number of category 1 events.

Question reference: S6W-39812

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2025
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 22 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many people resident in Scotland have received NHS treatment in the rest of the UK in each year since 2021.

The following table shows the total number of admissions across England, Wales and Northern Ireland for patients normally residing in Scotland, for each financial year since 2021 where complete data is available. Consideration should be given to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic when interpreting these data.

The total admissions includes emergency and elective admission episodes. Admissions do not represent the number of patients, as a person may have more than one admission within the period. The figures have been rounded to the nearest 5.

Financial year	Total Admissions
21-22	5,110
22-23	5,380
23-24	5,610

Question reference: S6W-40021

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 August 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 18 September 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on posting letters abroad in each year since 2021.

Question reference: S6W-39815

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2025
Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 21 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-14790 by Keith Brown on 23 February 2023, how many (a) incidents of and (b) emergency service callouts for mountaineering accidents there were in each year since 2021.

Each year the Scottish Government receives a copy of the Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) Annual Review which includes the total number of mountaineering incidents and callouts involving the 25 volunteer teams and 3 Police Scotland teams that are affiliated with SMR. The collated information from the reports for each year since 2021, where available, is provided in the following table:

Year	Mountaineering			Non-mountaineering			Total
Year	Incidents	Callouts	Hours	Incidents	Callouts	Hours	Incidents	Callouts	Hours
2021	345	n/a	n/a	315	n/a	n/a	660	893	31,799
2022	330	n/a	N/a	306	n/a	n/a	636	843	29,804
2023	319	390	n/a	253	586	n/a	572	976	32,762
2024	335	358	12,290	301	642	17,696	636	1,000	29,986

Question reference: S6W-39819

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2025
Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 20 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what the current backlog is of title holders who are awaiting copies of their title deeds from the Registers of Scotland, and how this compares with the previous year.

Registers of Scotland is a non-Ministerial Public Body answerable to the Scottish Parliament.

As of 12 August 2025, Registers of Scotland (RoS) had 59,655 dispositions undergoing registration as compared with 68,894 a year prior, representing a c13% reduction (9,239) year on year. In financial year 2024-25 RoS dealt with over 558k applications to the Land Register , 93% of which were completed within 35 days.

The process of registration in the Land Register involves digital copies of title deeds being sent to the Keeper who then updates the Land Register (LR). The applicant retains the original deeds. The legal effect of registration stems from the date the Keeper receives the application and not from the date when the updates are completed. Further information, including the total number of inflight applications of all types, is available on the Keeper’s website.

Question reference: S6W-39814

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 07 August 2025
Current Status: Answered by Kaukab Stewart on 19 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has allocated to Refugee Festival Scotland in each year since 2021.

To support work with refugees, people seeking asylum and local communities, the Scottish Government provides funding to organisations such as the Scottish Refugee Council to ensure that all people seeking refugee protection in Scotland are welcome, where women, children and men are protected, find safety and support, have their human rights and dignity respected and are able to achieve their full potential.

Refugee Festival Scotland, is coordinated by Scottish Refugee Council. The breakdown of indirect funding to Refugee Festival Scotland each year since 2021 can be found in the answer to question S6W-37679 on 30 May 2025. 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-39648

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 19 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the Public Service Obligation contract with Loganair on services between Glasgow and Campbeltown includes a limit on the number of flights that can operate.

Question reference: S6W-39511

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 July 2025
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 18 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to launch a procurement process similar to Project Gigabit to cover the whole of the Highlands and Islands region.

The Scottish Government is playing a key role in delivering Project Gigabit procurements in Scotland, alongside delivery of our own £600M+ Reaching 100% programme. As such, there are currently no plans to launch further procurements beyond those that are already underway.

The Highlands and Islands forms part of existing contracts and procurements, with premises across the region included in the R100 North contract, the nationwide Project Gigabit contract awarded to Openreach by BDUK last summer and a regional procurement currently underway to connect further premises in Orkney and Shetland. This is further supplemented by our Scottish Broadband Voucher Scheme and improved 4G coverage provided by our Scottish 4G Infill programme.

Question reference: S6W-39908

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 September 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-34581 by Angus Robertson on 6 March 2025, whether it will provide an update on whether it still plans to open an international office in Warsaw.

Question reference: S6W-39909

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 15 August 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 September 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-34581 by Angus Robertson on 6 March 2025, whether it can provide the total costs associated with its preparations for opening an international office in Warsaw, broken down by (a) year and (b) expenditure type.