- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 February 2026
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 10 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the £45 million rolling programme of ring-fenced capital funding for replacing radiotherapy equipment, which was set out in the National Radiotherapy Plan, how much has been allocated each year, broken down by NHS board.
Answer
| | 2022.23 | 2023.24 | 2024.25 | Total |
Health Board | £ | £ | £ | £ |
NHS Grampian | - | 4,260,000 | 3,156,000 | 7,416,000 |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 6,815,000 | 987,000 | 6,917,000 | 14,719,000 |
NHS Highland | 32,000 | 880,000 | 748,000 | 1,660,000 |
NHS Lothian | 2,590,000 | 3,620,000 | 4,076,000 | 10,286,000 |
NHS Tayside | - | 153,974 | 3,930,000 | 4,083,974 |
Total | 9,437,000 | 9,900,974 | 18,827,000 | 38,164,974 |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 February 2026
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 10 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government when data on cancer mortality by deprivation levels will be published.
Answer
Public Health Scotland (PHS) published the annual update to cancer mortality statistics in Scotland on 27 January 2026. Cancer mortality deprivation data has not been published due to the lack of available census data. Once the population data required for this analysis is available, PHS will pre-announce the publication.
The contents and timings of statistical publications are at the discretion of PHS who are independent of the Scottish Government.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 February 2026
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 10 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its Endoscopy and Urology Diagnostic Recovery and Renewal Plan, how many one-stop clinics each NHS board has, broken down by (a) set-up cost, (b) annual operating cost and (c) how many appointments each has delivered, each year
Answer
The following table details the number of urology hubs and one-stop urology clinics located through NHS Scotland.
NHS Board | Service |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | Urology Hub in the Ballochmyle Suite at University Hospital Ayr. One-stop diagnostic clinics are conducted from this suite. |
NHS Fife | In Fife there are two Urology Hubs: the Urology Diagnostic and Treatment Centre (UDTC) in Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, and the UDTC in the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy. One-stop clinics are well established in the UDTC in Victoria Hospital, offering services 5 days per week. |
NHS Forth Valley | The Urology Hub at Forth Valley Royal Hospital operates predominately as a one-stop service. |
NHS Grampian | There is one Urology Hub located in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) and one Urology Hub currently in development which will be one stop. |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde has two urology hubs located at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Royal Alexandra Hospital. A third one-stop Hub is currently in development and expected to trial from March 2026 based at Vale of Leven. |
NHS Highland | Urology Hub based in Raigmore Hospital that provides a Highland wide service with a one stop service for prostate and bladder. |
NHS Lanarkshire | In Lanarkshire, the main Urology Hub is in University Hospital Monklands (UHM) which provides pathway specific one-stop clinics. Further opportunities to expand the one-stop model are being explored. |
NHS Lothian | The Western General Hospital Urology Hub (WGH) supports all diagnostic pathways for benign and cancer patients, as well as a recently established a one-stop Male LUTS(Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms)/BPH(Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia) clinic and one stop visible haematuria clinics which have been in place for almost 2 years. In East Lothian Community Hospital, there is also a one stop service to deliver minimally invasive BPH treatments. With recent recruitment of additional specialist nurses to support the benign urology service and prostate cancer diagnostics, the service is seeking to develop additional one-stop clinics including exploring a more rapid diagnostic pathway for Urgent Suspicion of Cancer (USoC) prostate patients. |
NHS Tayside | Urology treatment centre (UTC) established at Perth Royal Infirmary (PRI). One-stop clinics are undertaken in UTC three days a week. |
Information about (a) set-up cost, (b) annual operating cost and (c) how many appointments each has delivered each year is not held centrally for the above noted urology hubs and one-stop clinics. The member may wish to contact NHS boards directly for more information.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 February 2026
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 10 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its Endoscopy and Urology Diagnostic Recovery and Renewal Plan, how many urology diagnostic hubs each NHS board has, broken down by (a) set-up cost, (b) annual operating cost and (c) how many appointments each has delivered each year.
Answer
The following table details the number of urology hubs and one-stop urology clinics located through NHS Scotland.
NHS Board | Service |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | Urology Hub in the Ballochmyle Suite at University Hospital Ayr. One-stop diagnostic clinics are conducted from this suite. |
NHS Fife | In Fife there are two Urology Hubs: the Urology Diagnostic and Treatment Centre (UDTC) in Queen Margaret Hospital, Dunfermline, and the UDTC in the Victoria Hospital in Kirkcaldy. One-stop clinics are well established in the UDTC in Victoria Hospital, offering services 5 days per week. |
NHS Forth Valley | The Urology Hub at Forth Valley Royal Hospital operates predominately as a one-stop service. |
NHS Grampian | There is one Urology Hub located in Aberdeen Royal Infirmary (ARI) and one Urology Hub currently in development which will be one stop. |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde has two urology hubs located at Glasgow Royal Infirmary and Royal Alexandra Hospital. A third one-stop Hub is currently in development and expected to trial from March 2026 based at Vale of Leven. |
NHS Highland | Urology Hub based in Raigmore Hospital that provides a Highland wide service with a one stop service for prostate and bladder. |
NHS Lanarkshire | In Lanarkshire, the main Urology Hub is in University Hospital Monklands (UHM) which provides pathway specific one-stop clinics. Further opportunities to expand the one-stop model are being explored. |
NHS Lothian | The Western General Hospital Urology Hub (WGH) supports all diagnostic pathways for benign and cancer patients, as well as a recently established a one-stop Male LUTS(Lower Urinary Tract Symptoms)/BPH(Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia) clinic and one stop visible haematuria clinics which have been in place for almost 2 years. In East Lothian Community Hospital, there is also a one stop service to deliver minimally invasive BPH treatments. With recent recruitment of additional specialist nurses to support the benign urology service and prostate cancer diagnostics, the service is seeking to develop additional one-stop clinics including exploring a more rapid diagnostic pathway for Urgent Suspicion of Cancer (USoC) prostate patients. |
NHS Tayside | Urology treatment centre (UTC) established at Perth Royal Infirmary (PRI). One-stop clinics are undertaken in UTC three days a week. |
Information about (a) set-up cost, (b) annual operating cost and (c) how many appointments each has delivered each year is not held centrally for the above noted urology hubs and one-stop clinics. The member may wish to contact NHS boards directly for more information.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 February 2026
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 10 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government how many CT scanners each NHS board has.
Answer
The Scottish Government does not routinely collect this information.
However, in the following table is the information that we do hold from 2024:
Health Board | CT Scanners |
NHS Ayrshire & Arran | 4 |
NHS Borders | 1 |
NHS Dumfries & Galloway | 2 |
NHS Fife | 3 |
NHS Forth Valley | 2 |
NHS Grampian | 5 |
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde | 21 |
NHS Highland | 7 |
NHS Lanarkshire | 7 |
NHS Lothian | 8 |
NHS Orkney | 1 |
NHS Shetland | 1 |
NHS Tayside | 8 |
NHS Western Isles | 1 |
NHS National Services Scotland | 1 |
NHS Golden Jubilee | 2 |
Total | 74 |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 02 February 2026
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Current Status:
Answered by Neil Gray on 10 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government how much has been allocated in (a) 2025-26 and (b) the draft Scottish Budget 2026-27 for replacing radiotherapy equipment.
Answer
No allocations have yet been issued for 2025-26, but will be issued in due course once final costs are known.
The forecast funding envelope for 2026-27 is £31.2 million.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 February 2026
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 10 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that a former Chief Nursing Officer offered the parents of Sophia Smith £20,000 and a holiday following her death in the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital in 2017.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 10 February 2026
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 January 2026
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom Arthur on 5 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding its draft Budget 2026-27, what its response is to the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities' (COSLA) assessment that, despite calling for an additional £750 million for social care, there is no additional funding for social care after pay uplifts.
Answer
The Scottish Government are fully aware that the budgetary pressures on the Health and Social Care system in 2026-27 have never been greater. After the disappointing UK Government Spending Review in June, we called on the UK Chancellor to increase funding, but they failed to deliver anything like the scale of change required.
Nevertheless, the draft Budget 2026-27 will provide almost £22.5 billion investment in health and social care services exceeding consequentials and providing a real terms uplift to enable more sustainable and resilient services. This includes investment of over £2.3 billion for social care, delivering our commitment to increase funding by 25%, and exceeding this by over £0.5 billion.
The Scottish Budget also provides a real terms increase to the Local Government Settlement, bringing it to almost £15.7 billion and while I recognise COSLA’s view that further funding is needed, there has never been greater pressures on public finances and simply increasing resource without wider reform risks leaving us in the same unsustainable position next year.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 January 2026
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Current Status:
Answered by Tom Arthur on 5 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding its draft Budget 2026-27, what any projected funding gap for commissioned social care services will be to meet the obligated uplift to at least the real Living Wage in 2026-27 if this budget is passed.
Answer
The draft Budget 2026-27 sets out a further £160 million investment to enable the payment of the Real Living Wage to adult social care workers in commissioned services in the next financial year. This will take the total Scottish Government investment in adult social care pay to over £1.1 billion annually.
It is the legal obligation of all employers to pay the National Living Wage. The additional £160 million will fund the gap between the National Living Wage and the Real Living Wage, enabling Local Authorities to offer pay rates for adult social care workers in commissioned services of more than 5% above the National Living Wage rate. Therefore, there will be no funding gap.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 January 2026
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 3 February 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what additional funding will be made available to (a) West Dunbartonshire and (b) Argyll and Bute Council to fund the pledge to deliver free Learn to Swim sessions, which was set out in the draft Scottish Budget 2026-27.
Answer
The draft Scottish Budget 2026-27 delivers a significant uplift in funding to sport. This allows us to deliver on our key ambition of ensuring every child has the opportunity to learn basic swimming skills, building confidence and safety in and around water.
We will work with Scottish Swimming and sportscotland to design a phased national roll-out of the National School Swimming Framework, ensuring the funding is targeted into addressing inequalities in access to swimming lessons across all local authority areas. That work is due to commence imminently.
