- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2025
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 4 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how it is working with industry partners to identify undiagnosed individuals living with hepatitis C.
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Answer expected on 4 March 2025
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2025
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 4 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government when it anticipates that it will deliver on its commitment to allocate 10% of NHS spend to mental health and 1% to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS).
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Answer expected on 4 March 2025
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2025
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 4 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what funding arrangement with local authorities has been developed to support learning for pupils whilst they are receiving treatment in children’s hospitals.
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Answer expected on 4 March 2025
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2025
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 4 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many teachers have been signed off work due to mental ill health in each local authority area in each year since 1999.
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Answer expected on 4 March 2025
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2025
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 4 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many exit interviews have taken place for teachers leaving the profession in each local authority area in each year since 1999.
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Answer expected on 4 March 2025
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2025
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 4 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many teachers have been signed off work as a result of having been attacked in school in each local authority area in each year since 1999.
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Answer expected on 4 March 2025
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 February 2025
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Current Status:
Answer expected on 4 March 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many shared headteacher roles have been in place in schools in each local authority area in each year since 1999.
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Answer expected on 4 March 2025
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 January 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 30 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether there have been any consequences for any of its officials as a result of any investigations into any leaking of ministerial statements or other information to the media, and, if so, what the consequences were.
Answer
The Civil Service Code requires that officials must not disclose official information without authority. No investigations have identified that officials have deliberately leaked information. We have offered guidance and engaged with teams on improving the handling of sensitive information.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 January 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 29 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on how many children and young people have been placed on part-time timetables in schools in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
The number of pupils that have been recorded with a part-time timetable absence code for 1 or more openings (half-day sessions) in each local authority from 2018-19 is set out in the following table.
Local Authority | 2018-19 | 2020-21 | 2022-23 | 2023-24 |
Aberdeen City | 175 | 245 | 403 | 566 |
Aberdeenshire | 263 | 249 | 522 | 635 |
Angus | 122 | 142 | 229 | 230 |
Argyll and Bute | 46 | 75 | 160 | 191 |
City of Edinburgh | 223 | 527 | 780 | 986 |
Clackmannanshire | 11 | c | 12 | c |
Dumfries and Galloway | 34 | 87 | 241 | 619 |
Dundee City | 46 | 107 | 164 | 139 |
East Ayrshire | 219 | 341 | 572 | 627 |
East Dunbartonshire | 27 | 100 | 102 | 138 |
East Lothian | 122 | 217 | 250 | 189 |
East Renfrewshire | c | 18 | 75 | 156 |
Falkirk | 72 | 133 | 140 | 104 |
Fife | 86 | 94 | 128 | 76 |
Glasgow City | 100 | 215 | 196 | 350 |
Grant Aided | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Highland | 264 | 426 | 556 | 623 |
Inverclyde | 46 | 39 | 76 | 168 |
Midlothian | 177 | 274 | 305 | 442 |
Moray | 86 | 164 | 187 | 186 |
Na h-Eileanan Siar | c | c | 7 | c |
North Ayrshire | 49 | 72 | 74 | 113 |
North Lanarkshire | 148 | 156 | 253 | 410 |
Orkney Islands | 16 | 14 | 36 | 60 |
Perth and Kinross | 102 | 154 | 257 | 377 |
Renfrewshire | 44 | 63 | 106 | 119 |
Scottish Borders | 72 | 113 | 124 | 202 |
Shetland Islands | 13 | 41 | 34 | 47 |
South Ayrshire | 13 | 47 | 58 | 97 |
South Lanarkshire | 84 | 201 | 447 | 389 |
Stirling | 75 | 134 | 148 | 205 |
West Dunbartonshire | 39 | 152 | 160 | 270 |
West Lothian | 288 | 547 | 995 | 1094 |
c = value suppressed to protect against the risk of disclosure of personal information.
Note that information on pupils recorded with a part-time timetable code was not collected centrally by the Scottish Government before the 2018-19 school year. Two new absence codes – part-time timetable (health related) and part-time timetable (exclusion related) – were available for schools to use from the 2018-19 school year. As with any new coding, variation in the use and application of these new absence codes was identified during the quality assurance of the 2018-19 attendance and absence data. There is evidence to suggest that this is still happening, although to a lesser extent.
These part-time timetable absences are part of the ‘other authorised absence’ category for the purposes of reporting in the 2018-19 statistics onwards. The number of absences reported using these new part-time timetable codes was very small so the inclusion of them as ‘other authorised absence’ does not have a large impact on the size or quality of this category.
Furthermore, prior to 2022-23, statistics on school pupil attendance and absence were collected and published biennially. The table above sets out the number of pupils that have been recorded with a part-time timetable absence code for 1 or more openings (i.e. half day) in each school, local authority and school year. However, due to pupils moving schools’ part-way through the school year, some pupils may be double-counted within and across local authorities.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 January 2025
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenni Minto on 29 January 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the current spend per individual on palliative care by each Integrated Joint Board (IJB).
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This information is not held centrally by the Scottish Government.
In Scotland, it is for Integration Joint Boards (IJBs) to govern, plan and resource adult palliative care in their areas, using the delegated budgets under their control, to meet the needs of their local populations.