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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-05055

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what advice it has provided to integration joint boards regarding charging for community alarms.

Charging guidelines for integration joint boards remain those issued by COSLA, as per S5W-04980 answered on 8 December 2016. These guidelines cover charging for non-residential social care services, which includes community alarms as a chargeable service.

All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx.

Question reference: S5W-05054

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have paid for their community alarm in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.

Question reference: S5W-05063

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-00934 by Shona Robison on 1 July 2016, how much each local authority received from the £6 million, and how many people this has helped in each local authority.

As part of the Local Government Finance Settlement for 2016-17, £250m was provided from the Health budget to integration authorities for social care, of which £125m was provided to support additional spend on expanding social care, including through making progress on charging thresholds for all non-residential services to address poverty.

Details of the allocations were provided in response to question S4W-30141 answered on 26 February 2016.

The Scottish Government estimated that increasing charging thresholds from 16.5% to 25% would benefit around 13,000 people through reduced charges and take around 900 people out of charging altogether.

Question reference: S5W-05062

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many outcomes of surgery are only benchmarked against other outcomes within the NHS in Scotland, broken down by type of surgery.

We take a broad approach to measuring the quality of care within our health service. Individual surgical units conduct morbidity and mortality meetings regularly, NSS Discovery allows appropriate benchmarking within and across Boards.

Our surgeons participate in a broad range of audits which are published and used to improve care. Some of these audits publish UK wide level consultant mortality data. In Scotland, we have seen surgical mortality fall by 24% in the last three years - partly as a result of the Scottish Patient Safety Programme.

Question reference: S5W-05060

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2016
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 9 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many young people have been refused treatment from child and adolescent mental health services in each year since 1999.

Data on how many young people have been refused treatment from child and adolescent mental health services is not held centrally.

Data on the number of referrals received and number of referrals rejected is collected and published on the ISD website (http://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Waiting-Times/Child-and-Adolescent-Mental-Health/). Referrals rejected are referrals that do not meet the criteria for CAMHS intervention.

Question reference: S5W-05052

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the number of people requiring personal care.

Question reference: S5W-05049

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2016
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 9 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many referrals for child and adolescent mental health services have been made by (a) GPs, (b) schools or school nurses and (c) named persons in each year since 1999.

Data on the number of referrals made by GP’s, schools or school nurses and named persons to child and adolescent mental health service is not held centrally ISD receives aggregated referral data from NHS Boards. It is not possible to identify the source of the referral.

Question reference: S5W-05051

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2016
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 8 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been refused treatment from mental health services due to also having an alcohol or drug dependency issue in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S5W-05056

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2016
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 8 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to support prisoners to access housing, employment and benefits ahead of being released.

SPS has a long standing relationship with the DWP who have placed JCP staff in all prisons either on a full time or part time basis. Partnership working is ongoing to ensure that access to employment support and benefit advice is continually improving.

SPS continues to work in collaboration with Scottish Government, third sector organisations and employers to provide Community Placements (release on temporary license) and post-liberation employment.

All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at http://www.parliament.scot/parliamentarybusiness/28877.aspx

Question reference: S5W-05050

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2016
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 8 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been supported by the alcohol and drug partnerships in each year since 1999.