<>We have, in particular, been working with the City of Edinburgh Health and Social Care Partnership, and we have allocated an additional £2 million to the partnership, with an agreement to reduce the level of delayed discharges significantly by May 2016. To receive the final £0.5 million, the Edinburgh partnership had to reduce standard delays to below 100 by February 2016, from a start point of 146 in November 2015. They achieved this and I am now looking for this to reduce by half by May 2016.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-30628 on 23 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

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-30628 on 23 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.

In 2014 the Scottish Government convened an independent group of scientific experts to provide impartial evidence on unconventional oil and gas. A copy of the final report can be found on the Scottish Government website at:

http://www.gov.scot/Publications/2014/07/1758.

The Scottish Environment Protection Agency and the Scottish Government asked ClimateXChange to undertake a desk-based study of the estimated greenhouse gas emissions associated with the extraction of onshore unconventional gas in Scotland, from exploration to the point of fuel production. The final report was published in 2014, a copy of which can be found at: http://www.climatexchange.org.uk/reducing-emissions/life-cycle-assessment-ghg-emissions-unconventional-gas1/.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-30723 on 22 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 is committed to engaging widely with our stakeholders on unconventional oil and gas. During the course of the consultation we will engage with communities, environmental organisations and industry in an open and balanced way.

Information on ministerial meetings is routinely published on the Scottish Government website, and can be found at:

http://www.gov.scot/About/People/14944/Events-Engagements/MinisterialEngagements/MinisterialEngagements

For details of meetings between ministers and stakeholders to discuss the Scottish Government research into unconventional oil and gas, I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-26272 on 27 July 2015. 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

Information on ministerial meetings is routinely published on the Scottish Government website, and can be found at:

http://www.gov.scot/About/People/14944/Events-Engagements/MinisterialEngagements/MinisterialEngagements

The Scottish Government has had no contact from Charlotte Street Partners in relation to fracking.

I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-30721 on 22 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 Cabinet Secretary for Social Justice, Communities and Pensioners’ Rights wrote to the Home Secretary about allegations of inappropriate accommodation provision for asylum seekers on 10 February and 8 March 2016. The UK Immigration Minister responded to the first of these letters on 11 March 2016. The Scottish Government has not had any discussions with the UK Government on this subject.

Copies of the Cabinet Secretary’s letters have been placed in the Scottish Parliaments Information Centre (SPICe) under bib numbers 57774 and 57775.

Discussions with the Home Office are ongoing.