- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 13 May 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Maree Todd on 21 May 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made regarding improving treatment for women after they have experienced a miscarriage.
Answer
The Scottish Government has given a commitment to establishing a dignified, compassionate miscarriage service tailored to the needs of women. The aim is to support the development of individualised care plans after a woman’s first miscarriage and ensure maternity departments have dedicated facilities for women who are experiencing unexpected pregnancy complications.
We also welcome the findings of the Lancet series on miscarriage published on 26 April 2021 and are considering the findings and recommendations made. Next steps are being discussed with stakeholders.
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 4 May 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the holding answer to question S5W-34217 by Jeane Freeman on 20 January 2021, how many doses of COVID-19 vaccine, broken down by type, have been allocated to each NHS board for each month from December 2020 to May 2021.
Answer
Data on vaccine allocation is published weekly at a national level.
As of Monday 26 April:
- Total number of doses allocated: 4,718,140
- Total number of doses delivered: 4,216,470
Total number of doses allocated refers to the number of doses that have been made available by Public Health England to the Scottish Government for ordering, and is the cumulative amount allocated up to 11:55 26 April 2021.
Total number of doses delivered refers to the number of doses that have been delivered from Public Health England to the ownership of the Scottish Government, and is the cumulative amount delivered by 23:59 25 April 2021.
This data is sensitive, so there is no NHS Board breakdown, however more information is available on the Scottish Government website, at: Coronavirus (COVID-19): daily data for Scotland - gov.scot (www.gov.scot).
The Scottish Government has been very clear from day one that the pace of our national vaccine programme is dependent on vaccine supply and delivery timescales. We continue to work closely across the 4 nations to ensure this is as smooth as possible.
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 29 April 2021
To ask the Scottish Government which SPIRE reports that explore respiratory conditions are currently available.
Answer
The SPIRE Multi-morbidity local report has the following Respiratory Conditions
•Patients with currently treated asthma
•Patients with Bronchiectasis
•Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
This is a local report which sits within local GP IT systems, and it is for practices to manage this information themselves.
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 29 April 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on when the money that is to be allocated to hospices that have been impacted financially by the COVID-19 pandemic will be paid, and how much has been paid to date, broken down by hospice.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to supporting the vital role of Scottish Hospices. In June 2020, we provided £10.1m in emergency funding to hospices to meet in full their funding requests for loss of income during the first lockdown period.
On the 24 March 2021, we confirmed that an additional £16.9m will be provided to Scottish Hospices to fully meet their requests for support relating to loss of income during the most recent lockdown. As such, the total funding allocated to hospices to support their work during the pandemic in the financial year 2020-2021 is approximately £27m. The breakdown of payments can be viewed in the following table.
| Hospice | Amount paid in June 2020 | Amount paid in March 2021 |
| Accord | £396k | £540k |
| Ardgowan | £396k | £341k |
| Ayrshire | £792k | £972k |
| Bethesda | £99k | £257k |
| CHAS | £1,287k | £3,236k |
| Highland | £792k | £1,040k |
| Kilbryde | £320k | £741k |
| Marie Curie | £1,584k | £2,116k |
| P&PW | £1,089k | £544k |
| St Andrew's | £891k | £1,361k |
| St Columba's | £792k | £2,574k |
| St Margaret | £396k | £1,758k |
| St Vincent's | £297k | £233k |
| Strathcarron | £990k | £1,188k |
| Total | £10.1m | £16.9m |
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 29 April 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to increase the number of medical school places for Scotland-domiciled students, including for graduate-entry programmes.
Answer
We have asked NHS Lothian to carry out a review of its eye care services. We remain committed to working with NHS Lothian to support this and protect specialised eye services for the city and the wider region. Health Boards do not receive the funding for major capital projects until the project has completed the approval process set out in the Scottish Capital Investment Manual.
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 April 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been prescribed (a) Erenumab and (b) Fremanezumab for migraine treatment since Scottish Medicine Consortium approval was granted.
Answer
Thank you for your Parliamentary Question asking how many people have been prescribed (a) Erenumab and (b) Fremanezumab for migraine treatment since Scottish Medicine Consortium approval was granted.
The Scottish Medicine Consortium granted approval for Erenumab and Fremanezumab for migrane treatment on the 8th April 2019 and 13th January 2020, respectively.
Information on the total number of patients who have been prescribed Erenumab and Fremanezumab is not available centrally.
Erenumab is prescribed in both primary care and secondary care and Fremanezumab is used in secondary care only. Patient information is not recorded in the secondary care prescribing dataset (the Hospital Medicines Utilisation Database (HMUD)) and as a result it is not possible to provide patient counts for Erenumab or Fremanezumab in secondary care.
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by James Wolffe QC on 24 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the future provision of forensic toxicology services and on what date the University of Glasgow will cease its contractual arrangement with the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service.
Answer
Forensic toxicology services are currently provided by the University of Glasgow under a contract with COPFS. COPFS has agreed a contract extension with the University of Glasgow to 31 March 2022 to facilitate transfer of service provision to another provider.
As part of the process aimed at improving the delivery of toxicology services, the University of Glasgow agreed an Improvement Plan with COPFS which sets out performance targets and requires the University to provide data on a weekly basis to COPFS on the progress of their outstanding cases. The current work in progress is ahead of the Improvement Plan target and the level of work in progress has reduced significantly since June 2020. There are seven outstanding 2020 cases and these will be completed shortly. The average turnaround time is currently 48 days.
COPFS has identified a new provider of toxicology services and detailed transition planning work is being undertaken by this provider with a view to the service transitioning to them at the cessation of the University of Glasgow contract. COPFS and the University of Glasgow have agreed to work together to assist the new provider to manage that transition effectively.
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 24 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-34227 by Mairi Gougeon on 14 January 2021, whether it
will provide an update on what (a) assessment it has made of the impact of
COVID-19 on the viability of leisure centres and (b) progress has been
made to provide financial support to leisure centres.
Answer
We are continuing to work with sportscotland to continually review and establish the needs of the sector. For leisure centres which are owned by the public sector, the Scottish Government and COSLA have now finalised a lost income scheme, including support for ALEOS worth £200 million. Taken together with the £49 million previously announced the total support for lost income is now potentially £249 million. The Scottish Government are also committed to passing on any additional UK Government consequentials for lost income, in full to local government. However, it is the responsibility of individual local authorities to manage their own budgets and to allocate the total financial resources available to them on the basis of local needs and priorities.
Since the start of the Covid-19 outbreak the Scottish Government has worked closely with the UK Government and private and public sector partners to develop a range of support mechanisms for businesses. Information on all available support for businesses can be found on Find Business Support . The website is regularly updated with information on any new support packages or changes to existing ones.
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2021
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Current Status:
Holding Answer by Jeane Freeman on 24 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-34268 by Jeane Freeman on 20 January 2021, whether any new variants of COVID-19 have been identified in nosocomial infections in Scotland.
Answer
Holding Answer by Jeane Freeman on 24 March 2021
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will give complainers of sexual offences the right to anonymity.
Answer
In sexual offence cases, there can be a legal right of anonymity for sexual offence complainers, but this requires a decision by a court to be made to protect a person's identity in a given case. Separate from this, there is a long-standing non-statutory protocol operated by the media not to name complainers in sexual offence cases.
Lady Dorrian's independent review on the management of sexual offence cases was published on 18 March 2021. The review recommends that complainer anonymity in rape or other sexual offence cases is put on a statutory footing. We will give the report and its recommendations careful consideration as we look to build on actions already taken to improve the support provided to all participants in sexual offence cases and to promote efficient case management. Decisions on implementation of the report will be a matter for the incoming Administration.
