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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: S5W-23649

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 19 June 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS staff are not employed on full-time contracts.

Question reference: S5W-23650

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 19 June 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many people were readmitted to hospital in the last year within 24 hours of discharge, broken down by integrated joint board area.

Question reference: S5W-23640

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 07 June 2019
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 19 June 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many organisations applying to it for funding in the last year have had their applications rejected.

The Scottish Budget authorises expenditure to support policy objectives, including funding to public bodies and grant schemes for particular activities. Individual Ministerial portfolios can provide funding in response to funding applications within their portfolio area. Information on such applications and funding is not collated centrally.

The Scottish Government annual accounts report on funding at a portfolio level: the 2018-19 accounts are currently in preparation and will be available by the end of September 2019. The Scottish Government publishes all Scottish Government spend over £25,000, on a monthly basis on its website.

Question reference: S5W-23641

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 07 June 2019
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 19 June 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much it has awarded in the last year to organisations that have applied to it for funding.

Question reference: S5W-23597

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 June 2019
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 18 June 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-21526 by Richard Lochhead on 7 March 2019, whether it will provide this information for each of the last five years, also broken by institution.

Question reference: S5W-23638

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 14 June 2019

To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish the hepatitis C elimination strategy, and what the reason has been for the reported three-year delay in doing so.

Scottish Government officials are working with Health Protection Scotland and NHS Boards to agree treatment targets which will see Scotland reach elimination well in advance of the World Health Organisation target of 2030.

A great deal of work has been done by NHS Procurement and Boards to get medicine to the people who need it most. HPS data shows that, between 2013 and 2016, we delivered a 39 per cent reduction in the incidence of decompensated cirrhosis in people with chronic hep C. This is a clear indication that the Scottish Government’s current commitment to eliminating serious disease associated with hepatitis C is working.

Question reference: S5W-23644

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 13 June 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many incidents of bullying in the NHS have been reported in each year since 1999.

Boards first provided this information to the Scottish Government in their 2018-19 annual Staff Governance Monitoring return.

NHS Scotland Boards have advised us that 232 formal bullying and harassment cases were raised during 2018-2019 (1 April 2018 to 31 March 2019).

Following John Sturrock`s report into allegations of a bullying culture in NHS Highland we have asked all health boards in Scotland to consider the findings and look again at the effectiveness of their own internal processes for handling concerns, leadership and governance.

Question reference: S5W-23646

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 13 June 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been in intermediate care places in each year since 1999, broken down by integrated joint board.

This information is not held centrally, although we estimate that there are around 700 intermediate care beds in operation across Scotland. However, this is only one of a range of Intermediate Care services currently provided across Scotland, with current services ranging from home care reablement, to hospital at home and virtual community wards.

Since the publication of the Framework for Intermediate Care in 2012 we have supported the ongoing development of Intermediate Care services across Scotland. The Framework is available at https://www2.gov.scot/Publications/2012/07/1181 .

Question reference: S5W-23647

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 13 June 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many additional (a) council-run and (b) private care beds there have been in each local authority area in each year since 1999.

The Scottish Care Homes Census published by ISD Scotland provides information on the number of registered care home places for adults in each local authority area in Scotland at 31 March;

https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Health-and-Social-Community-Care/Care-Homes/Previous-Publications/index.asp .

Information has been published for 2000 to 2017. Within the publication, information is available on the number of registered places for ‘Local Authority and NHS’ and ‘private sector’ care beds.

For years 2000-2014, see data table 4 published on 28 October 2014.

For years 2015-2017, see data table 4 published on 11 September 2018.

The annual difference in the number of registered care home places by local authority can be calculated using these tables.

Question reference: S5W-23648

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 13 June 2019

To ask the Scottish Government which NHS boards require additional care beds, broken down by the amount needed.

This information is not held centrally. Responsibility for the planning and commissioning of local care home beds and services is a matter for individual Integration Authorities, alongside their partners in Local Government and the NHS.

Scottish Government policy is to ensure that people receive the right care in the right place, at the right time, and wherever possible, see this care delivered at home or in a homely setting. We are encouraging Integration Authorities and NHS Boards to develop more community based services aimed at early prevention and management of more complex needs at home, with the development of services such as hospital at home. This should ultimately lead to the need for fewer beds, not more.