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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.

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Question reference: S6W-04689

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 2021
Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 10 December 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how much financial resource it has allocated to (a) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and (b) clean air awareness campaigns, in each year since 2016.

The Scottish Government provides baseline funding to NHS Boards, which Boards use to best meet the healthcare needs of their resident population. In addition, the Scottish Government has ensured that additional Covid related costs reported by Health Boards and Integration Authorities have been met in full, including £862 million allocated to date in 2021-22. Further allocations will be made over the course of the year to ensure that our health and care services continue to receive the support required to address pressures relating to the pandemic.

Detail on how this funding has been used to specifically support protecting people with pre-existing respiratory illnesses, such as COPD, would require to be requested from NHS Boards.

The Scottish Government has provided the following funding to support Clean Air Day each year since it started in 2017. Clean Air Day is a UK wide annual clean air awareness campaign run by the environmental charity Global Action Plan. Since 2018 in Scotland, Clean Air Day is run jointly by Global Action Plan and Environmental Protection Scotland, also an environmental charity.

Year	Global Action Plan	Environmental Protection Scotland	TOTAL
2016	-	-	-
2017	55,800	-	55,800
2018	31,920	30,000	61,920
2019	26,950	50,919	77,869
2020	25,175	50,919	76,094
2021	25,175	56,950	82.125

Question reference: S6W-04691

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 2021
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 8 December 2021

To ask the Scottish Government on what date the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care last met with representatives of the British Lung Foundation to discuss (a) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and (b) lung diseases similar to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.

Question reference: S6W-04688

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 2021
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 8 December 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of the number of individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the NHS (a) Ayrshire and Arran and (b) Greater Glasgow and Clyde area.

Question reference: S6W-04631

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 November 2021
Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 8 December 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many electric vehicle charging points have been installed at Scottish Government buildings or premises in each of the last four financial years, including 2021-22 to date, also broken down by the building concerned.

The following electric vehicle charging points have been installed at Core Scottish Government buildings or premises in each of the last four financial years, including 2021-22 to date

2018-2019

Dumfries

2 x wall mounted smart sockets

Thurso

2 x wall mounted smart sockets

Bonnington, Edinburgh

8 x wall mounted smart sockets

Saughton House, Edinburgh

1 x 22kW dual charging post

Victoria Quay, Edinburgh

1 x 22kW dual charging post

2019-2020

Victoria Quay, Edinburgh

6 x 7kW dual outlet

1 x 50kW triple outlet

1 x 22kW dual outlet

Saughton House, Edinburgh

1 x 22kW dual outlet

4 x 7kW dual outlet

Marine Lab, Aberdeen

4 x 7kW dual outlet

2 x 22kW dual outlet

Faskally

1 x 7kW dual outlet

Cameron House, Oban

2 x 7kW dual outlet

1 x 22W dual outlet

Longman House, Inverness

2 x 22W dual outlet

Atlantic Quay, Galsgow

1 x 7kW dual outlet wallbox

Tankerness, Orkney

1 x 7kW dual outlet wallbox

Stornoway

1 x 7kW dual outlet wallbox

2020-21

Projects delayed due to Covid.

2021-2022

Victoria Quay, Edinburgh

1 x 22kw dual outlet

Saughton House, Edinburgh

2 x 22kw dual outlet

Question reference: S6T-00339

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 06 December 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 December 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what resilience measures are in place to tackle serious organised crime and terrorism, in light of reports that the Assistant Chief Constable in charge has been suspended.

Question reference: S6W-04397

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 15 November 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 December 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of the financial cost of the vaccine passport scheme to the hospitality sector.

Question reference: S6W-04395

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 15 November 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 December 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of the number of staff shortages in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Decisions on local staffing requirements and recruitment are the responsibility of individual NHS Boards. However, Scottish Government officials are continually engaging with NHS Boards to identify particular areas of concern.

NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde are delivering a number of campaigns to fill vacancies and to recruit additional staffing. The Board are recruiting 222 Band 3 Health Care Support Workers (HCSW) to their Health and Social Care Partnerships and are targeting the recruitment of a further 200 HCSWs into Acute settings, as well as 20 Band 5 and 20 Band 6 Critical Care nurses. The Board have also recruited over 577 newly qualified nurses who have been commencing throughout October and November with some planning to commence in early 2022.

As a result of local and national efforts to recruit staff in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s staffing levels are up 4.7% or by 1,608.3 whole-time equivalent, since March 2020.

Source: NHS Education for Scotland Official NHS Workforce publication, data at June 2021.

Question reference: S6W-04237

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 12 November 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 December 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what data it has on any causational link, direct or indirect, between the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine passport scheme for certain entertainment, sporting or large-scale events and any changes in (a) the take-up of the COVID-19 vaccine and (b) COVID-19 rates of infection since the scheme launched.

Question reference: S6W-04240

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 12 November 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 December 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what the procurement process was for the NHS Covid Status App; which company was chosen for the design and production of the app; what the cost was of (a) the app's procurement and (b) any initial (i) research, (ii) development and (iii) launch of the app; what the ongoing operational costs (A) have been to date and (B) are estimated to be for the period that the app is operational, including any licence fees or other costs related to the use of the app by it and its agencies.

The full contract notices are published on Public Contracts Scotland. See https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV432052 and https://www.publiccontractsscotland.gov.uk/search/show/search_view.aspx?ID=NOV432062 . I also refer the member to the answer to question S6W-03620 on 17 November 2021. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers .

Question reference: S6W-04239

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 08 November 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 December 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many individuals have downloaded the COVID-19 vaccine passport app on a digital device and, of those who have downloaded it, how many have (a) successfully used it to produce evidence of a vaccination on the device of their choice, (b) called or emailed the service provider to report a fault with the app or process and (c) been unable to use the app due to database issues that have resulted in an incorrect vaccination status being shown.

Public Heath Scotland publish a weekly COVID-19 statistical report every Wednesday which includes this information. As at 15 November 2021 the COVID Status app had been downloaded over 1.5 million. It is important to note a single user may choose to download the App on multiple devices so this total figure does not represent unique individuals.

As we do not track individual’s use of their certificates, it is not possible to indicate how many people have used their certificate.

For part’s (b) and (c), the Deputy First Minister wrote to the Covid-19 Recovery Committee setting out the information requested in detail. This can be accessed on the Scottish Parliament website here .

Estimated number of adults (aged 16+) with doctor-diagnosed COPD in Scotland (1) , rounded to the nearest 1,000

Ayrshire & Arran	15,000
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	47,000
(1) Estimates are based on Scottish Health Survey 2016-2019 combined doctor-diagnosed COPD prevalence figures and NRS 2019 mid-year population estimates.