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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-02302

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the number of children of women who were given diethylstilbestrol (DES) in Scotland who have gone on to develop cancer.

Question reference: S6W-02191

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-01223 by Michael Matheson on 28 July 2021, for what reason the list of organisations did not include representatives of (a) the hospitality sector and (b) small producers.

Question reference: S6W-02190

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-01223 by Michael Matheson on 28 July 2021, what criteria were used to determine which organisations that the Gateway Review team would interview.

The Gateway Review was focused on activities that lie on the critical path for delivery of DRS, such as establishment of the scheme’s infrastructure and implementation of the regulatory function. This determined which organisations would be interviewed during the short timeframe of the review. The Scottish Government has also met with other sectors, including hospitality and small producers, to understand the impact of the pandemic on them and to ensure that their views are taken into account.

Question reference: S6W-02138

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what evaluation it plans to carry out of the roll-out of short-term mobility aids.

Guidance on the provision of wheelchairs on short-term loan was published five months ago, on 23 March 2021 ( https://www.gov.scot/publications/guidance-provision-wheelchairs-short-term-loan/ ).

Officials are meeting with the Red Cross in September to discuss options for an evaluation, and how the Red Cross can support the Scottish Government and health and social care partnerships. Before any evaluation commences health and social care partnerships, along with their store services, require sufficient time to put measures in place to ensure the guidance is fully implemented, a part of this work will be to develop processes to monitor and evaluate service provision.

The Scottish Government has also launched a review of the wider guidance on the provision of equipment and adaptations, which was originally published in 2008 ( https://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/publications/CC2009_05.pdf ). The review is now moving to the consultation phase, with online events planned for 25 August and
‎ 1 September 2021 and an online consultation due to launch in September.

To accompany the guidance a range of self-assessment tools are also being developed which, following publication of the revised guidance, officials will consider how these could be used to support an evaluation.

Question reference: S6W-02402

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government on what dates in 2020 and 2021 the Mobilisation Recovery Group has met, and by what date the (a) minutes of and (b) names of attendees at each meeting will be published.

Question reference: S6W-02303

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the number of women who were given diethylstilbestrol (DES) in Scotland and went on to develop cancer.

Question reference: S6W-02140

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 26 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what information is recorded by NHS boards on patients (a) loaning and (b) ineligible for short-term mobility aids.

Question reference: S6W-02139

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 26 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have been provided with a short-term mobility aid since the roll-out of guidance on the provision of these earlier in 2021, broken down by health and social care partnership.

Question reference: S6O-00076

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 September 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent, and plans to spend over the next four years, on the mitigation of landslips at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83.

Question reference: S6W-01534

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 July 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what modelling or scientific advice it has regarding the estimated number of COVID-19-related (a) cases, (b) hospital admissions, (c) ICU admissions and (d) deaths there might be following the planned easing of restrictions on (i) 19 July and (ii) 9 August 2021.

Since May 2020 the Scottish Government has published 3-4 week projections of infections, hospital and ICU occupancy in its weekly publication Modelling the Epidemicin Scotland Coronavirus (COVID-19): modelling the epidemic - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) . It is published each Thursday at 5.30pm. These projections take account of the uncertainty in transmission rates, and indicate the variability as to whether infections will increase, remain level or reduce in coming weeks.

The number of new cases has been increasing over the last week. The estimate of R has increased and now spans one. Hospitalisations have been declining from a peak in mid-July, but have now levelled off. Potential future changes in hospital occupancy and intensive care use depend on both current infection levels and the impact of the relaxations of measures which will take a few weeks to become apparent.

In the publication we have not been projecting the numbers of people expected to die with Covid 19 in recent weeks. The number of daily deaths has fallen to very low levels, too low to produce accurate projections.