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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: S5O-04962

Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 January 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of children and young people are accessing places at school and nursery during the current lockdown period.

Question reference: S5O-04939

Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 January 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 January 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what guidance it has produced regarding the provision of education in prisons under the current COVID-19 restrictions.

Question reference: S5W-33930

Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2020
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 December 2020

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of people in each local authority area have received a COVID-19 test.

The following table sets out the percentages of the population in each local authority who have received a COVID-19 test at least once as at 14 December.

Local Authority Area	Percentage of the population who have been tested at least once
Aberdeen City	22%
Aberdeenshire	19%
Angus	20%
Argyll & Bute	19%
City of Edinburgh	21%
Clackmannanshire	29%
Dumfries & Galloway	21%
Dundee City	25%
East Ayrshire	25%
East Dunbartonshire	26%
East Lothian	20%
East Renfrewshire	26%
Falkirk	22%
Fife	20%
Glasgow City	28%
Highland	16%
Inverclyde	25%
Midlothian	22%
Moray	16%
Na h-Eileanan Siar	15%
North Ayrshire	23%
North Lanarkshire	27%
Orkney Islands	12%
Perth & Kinross	21%
Renfrewshire	28%
Scottish Borders	19%
Shetland Islands	20%
South Ayrshire	23%
South Lanarkshire	27%
Stirling	25%
West Dunbartonshire	28%
West Lothian	22%

The percentages in the table have been calculated based on the total number of people tested in each local authority area as reported at 14 December 2020, i.e. the number of individuals who have had a positive or negative test result to date. Each person is only counted once regardless of repeat tests. The data has been taken from the Public Health Scotland and National Records of Scotland mid-year population estimates 2019.

People are allocated to a Local Authority area based on the postcode attached to their test. Where this is not available, the postcode on the central CHI register is used. Where no valid postcode is available then the person is not allocated to a Local Authority area – so the total number of people tested for Scotland is higher (1,263,656 at 14 December as published on Coronavirus (COVID-19): daily data for Scotland - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) ) than the total adding together all the Local Authorities (1,257,291).

The data by local authority are published as open data by Public Health Scotland here: Daily COVID-19 Cases in Scotland - Datasets - Scottish Health and Social Care Open Data (nhs.scot)

Question reference: S5O-04872

Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2020
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 December 2020

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the supermarket sector regarding the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Question reference: S5O-04762

Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 November 2020
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 November 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how assaults against police officers are recorded.

Question reference: S5T-02490

Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 02 November 2020
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 November 2020

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding the conditions under which furlough payments will continue to be paid in Scotland.

Question reference: S5O-04632

Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 September 2020
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 September 2020

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact of COVID-19 on local government services.

Question reference: S5O-04583

Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 September 2020
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 September 2020

To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has done on the role of poverty and trauma in the lives of young people who enter the justice system.

Question reference: S5O-04541

Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 August 2020
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 September 2020

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the Race Equality Framework.

Question reference: S5W-31192

Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 13 August 2020
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 25 August 2020

To ask the Scottish Government when it expects the Scottish Bowel Screening programme to resume.

Bowel screening colonoscopies have now resumed in all NHS Boards and work is underway by the Bowel Screening Programme Board to assess readiness to resume the Scottish Bowel Screening programme. New home testing kits will begin to be posted once NHS Scotland has caught up with screening colonoscopy appointments affected by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

In the meantime, it is important for people to be aware of the symptoms or signs of bowel cancer, and to contact their GP if they have any concerns about these. Further information can be found on the NHS Inform website at https://www.nhsinform.scot/healthy-living/screening/bowel/bowel-screening .