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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-07281

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 22 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will introduce regulations, similar to those in England and Wales, to only allow A1 and A2 rated Euroclass materials to be used on the outside of high-rise and institutional buildings in Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-07280

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 22 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it is considering evidence from the Grenfell Tower inquiry as part of its review of the continued role of the BS 8414 standard in Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-07282

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 22 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish its response for the consultation, Building standards (fire safety).

Question reference: S6W-07290

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 22 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many people registered as homeless have undergone cancer screening in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S6W-07283

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 22 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government when it will be presented with the recommendations on external wall fire safety and the continued role of the BS 8414 standard in Scotland by the Building Standards (Fire Safety) Review Panel 2021.

Question reference: S6W-07275

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 11 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 22 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many children have undertaken cycling proficiency training in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

Bikeability is Scotland’s national cycle training programme for School children – designed to give pupils the skills and confidence they need to cycle safely on the road and to encourage them to carry on cycling into adulthood. The Scottish Government hold data on the level of training provision from 2010, this is published each year by Cycling Scotland. Since 2010 more than 350,000 pupils have received cycle training in Scotland.

The following table shows the percentage of primary schools delivering Level 2 Bikeability training for each year broken down by local authority. The entries showing "no return" reflect that Argyll & Bute, East Ayrshire and North Ayrshire delivered alternative training. Argyll and Bute and East Ayrshire started delivering Bikeability training in 2020-21.

LOCAL AUTHORITY	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21
Aberdeen City	21%	25%	31%	57%	68%	62%	68%	42%	47%	9%	27%
Aberdeenshire	93%	93%	76%	91%	91%	63%	80%	79%	85%	27%	51%
Angus	74%	72%	74%	57%	43%	45%	50%	67%	78%	41%	71%
Argyll & Bute	45%	No return	No return	No return	No return	No return	No return	No return	No return	No return	pilot started
Clackmannanshire	11%	11%	37%	37%	39%	44%	17%	33%	100%	33%	100%
Dumfries & Galloway	70%	73%	47%	30%	29%	41%	43%	38%	36%	4%	5%
Dundee	0%	0%	3%	23%	29%	17%	11%	53%	91%	67%	82%
East Ayrshire	7%	9%	No return	No return	No return	No return	No return	No return	No return	No return	pilot started
East Dunbartonshire	5%	3%	5%	24%	14%	8%	22%	15%	67%	76%	94%
East Lothian	0%	0%	11%	26%	29%	23%	29%	41%	49%	24%	47%
East Renfrewshire	33%	40%	70%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	0%	100%
Edinburgh	29%	40%	52%	72%	70%	48%	68%	60%	53%	7%	26%
Falkirk	4%	6%	10%	8%	22%	12%	4%	6%	8%	19%	6%
Fife	31%	21%	16%	16%	18%	21%	36%	22%	29%	23%	24%
Glasgow	4%	4%	15%	28%	25%	34%	29%	35%	34%	22%	33%
Highland	34%	28%	16%	29%	28%	29%	36%	21%	30%	12%	15%
Inverclyde	4%	21%	35%	10%	30%	30%	20%	15%	26%	0%	5%
Midlothian	10%	40%	63%	87%	63%	63%	81%	75%	69%	22%	41%
Moray	96%	65%	58%	47%	62%	49%	37%	40%	56%	27%	62%
Na h-Eileanan Siar	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	0%	5%	96%	100%	0%	100%
North Ayrshire	0%	No return	No return	No return	No return	No return	No return	No return	No return	No return	No return
North Lanarkshire	0%	7%	5%	0%	4%	No return	9%	10%	11%	15%	29%
Orkney	40%	40%	65%	95%	90%	65%	68%	63%	58%	37%	90%
Perth & Kinross	91%	61%	40%	37%	34%	62%	52%	51%	61%	26%	67%
Renfrewshire	6%	8%	22%	29%	20%	22%	20%	22%	29%	10%	59%
Scottish Borders	54%	54%	43%	8%	27%	29%	31%	31%	8%	2%	25%
Shetland	100%	53%	45%	90%	100%	100%	100%	100%	100%	25%	100%
South Ayrshire	79%	55%	73%	76%	83%	76%	81%	83%	88%	44%	34%
South Lanarkshire	0%	10%	17%	28%	39%	34%	39%	39%	43%	15%	10%
Stirling	17%	18%	5%	43%	65%	68%	50%	72%	66%	26%	58%
West Dunbartonshire	9%	12%	9%	21%	44%	41%	49%	56%	59%	13%	38%
West Lothian	21%	0%	15%	15%	15%	15%	17%	11%	26%	9%	9%
TOTALS	32%	32%	35%	37%	40%	38%	42%	42%	47%	20%	37%

Question reference: S6W-07278

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 22 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, as part of its review of the role of the BS 8414 standard in Scotland, what discussions it has had with the (a) UK Government regarding its decision in 2018 to end the use of the BS 8414 standard for residential and institutional buildings over 18m and (b) Welsh Government regarding its decision in 2020 to do the same.

Question reference: S6W-07279

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 22 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what meetings it has had as part of its review of the continued role of the BS 8414 standard in Scotland, and what was discussed at each meeting.

The Building Standards (Fire Safety) Review Panel 2020-22, with remit to review the use of BS 8414, has met on four separate occasions and the meeting minutes for the first three meetings which include the BS 8414 discussions can be accessed at:

Building Standards (Fire Safety) Review Panel 2021-2022 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

The fourth and final meeting minutes are due to be published by the end of March 2022.

Question reference: S6W-07288

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 22 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what plans there are to introduce CT scanning to screen for lung cancer.

Question reference: S6W-07262

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 11 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 22 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many classroom assistants have been employed in each local authority in each year since 1999.

Information on the number of pupil support assistants employed in 2021 was published on 15 March 2022 and is available here School support staff statistics - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) .

Information on previous years is available in the answer to parliamentary question S6W-01069: 'To ask the Scottish Government how many classroom assistants have been employed in each local authority area in each year since 1999.'