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This information is not held centrally.

It is for local authorities to decide the appropriate amount and percentage of spend on temporary accommodation in their area.

The Scottish House Condition Survey does not record any reduction in the proportion of social sector dwelling that passed the healthy, safe and secure section of the Scottish Housing Quality Standard (SHQS) in 2014. The proportion of dwellings in the social sector which failed this criterion was 13% in 2013 and 14% in 2014. The difference between these two figures is within the margin of error.

The Scottish Housing Regulator is responsible for monitoring the performance of social landlords against SHQS, and reported that at April 2015 only 1.19% of social housing was non-compliant with the SHQS. These figures for compliance include social housing that is exempt or in abeyance from part of the standard, for example where the work is not technically possible or where the necessary consent of owners cannot be obtained.

The regulator considers fails as part of its annual risk assessment and where necessary engages with landlords to confirm that plans are in place to ensure stock meets SHQS.

The Scottish Government has provided £1 million of funding over 2014-16 to help combat food poverty in Scotland. This funding supports 26 emergency food aid projects in 17 local authority areas to respond to the immediate demands for emergency food aid and help address the underlying causes of food poverty. Most, but not all of these projects are led by food banks, and are set out in the following table.

Local authority (number of funded projects)	Lead organisation(s)
Aberdeen (2)	Fersands and Fountain Community Project Instant Neighbour
Clackmannanshire (1)	The Gate Charity
Dumfries and Galloway (2)	Apex Scotland Dumfries and Galloway Citizens Advice Service
Dundee (1)	Dundee Foodbank
East Ayrshire (1)	Council of Voluntary Organisations
East Lothian (1)	East Lothian Foodbank
Edinburgh (3)	The Rock Trust Bethany Christian Trust Citizens Advice Edinburgh/Edinburgh City Mission
Falkirk (1)	Falkirk Foodbank
Fife (1)	ENeRGI
Glasgow (5)	Glasgow North East Foodbank Glasgow North West Foodbank Central and West Integration Network Wheatley Group Balornock East Residents Association/Greater Maryhill Foodbank
Highland (1)	Calman Trust
Inverclyde (1)	Inverclyde Foodbank
Midlothian (1)	Midlothian Foodbank
Moray (1)	Community Food Moray
North Ayrshire (1)	North Ayrshire Foodbank
North Lanarkshire (2)	Calderbank Parish Church Lanarkshire Community Food and Health Partnership
South Lanarkshire (1)	Community Links

The number and proportion of dwellings in the social sector which failed the healthy, safe and secure section of the Scottish Housing Quality Standard since 2010 according to the Scottish House Condition Survey are as follows:

Year	Number	Percentage
2010	100,000	16%
2011	93,000	15%
2012	77,000	13%
2013	77,000	13%
2014	85,000	14%

The Scottish Government does not hold information on the number of food banks that have ceased operation.

The report contains a range of recommendations for the short, medium and long term and we will take forward our response to the recommendations accordingly.

NHS Special Health Boards received differential funding dependent upon their relationship with directly patient facing services.

In terms of efficiency savings, four of the special health boards generated efficiency savings which were returned to the Scottish Government and reinvested in patient facing services in the other health boards. The other special boards retained their efficiency savings for local reinvestment. Savings are agreed with boards as part of their annual financial planning process.

The following table shows the uplifts(reductions) for Special NHS Boards in 2015-16. Draft Budget figures are also provided for 2016-17.

	2014-15 Baseline	Baseline	Efficiency	2015-16 Baseline	2016-17 Budget	2016-17 Budget
Board		Uplift 1%	Savings		Uplift	Baseline
	£000s	£000s	£000s	£000s	£000s	£000s
NHS National Waiting Times Centre Board	45,495	455		45,950	590	46,541
Scottish Ambulance Service	209,967	2,100		212,066	6,475	218,541
NHS National Services Scotland	282,029	2,820	(1,500)	283,349	10,045	293,394
Healthcare Improvement Scotland	15,454	155	(450)	15,158	336	15,494
The State Hospital	33,859	339		34,197	87	34,284
NHS 24	62,104	621		62,725	1,891	64,616
NHS National Education Scotland	390,156	3,902	(1,500)	392,557	16,100	408,657
NHS Health Scotland	18,898	189	(1,050)	18,037	180	18,217

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-28109 on 16 March 2016. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at: http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

The Scottish Government consulted on the strategy from 5 September 2011 to 31 January 2012 and the 344 publishable responses are available online: http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2014/05/4073. We also held a consultation event on 7 December 2011 in Edinburgh at which around 150 delegates attended representing a range of interests including statutory and non-statutory organisations.

The progress against each of the commitments in the Mental Health Strategy for Scotland 2012-2015 is updated, where appropriate, on the Scottish Government's website (see following link). Where there is no update on an individual commitment, we will report the status in spring 2016, after the completion of the strategy’s timeframe.

http://www.gov.scot/Topics/Health/Services/Mental-Health/Strategy