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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-19990

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2023
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 7 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many of the 1,500 new clinical and non-clinical staff, committed to in its NHS Recovery Plan, will be based in the National Treatment Centre Tayside.

National Treatment Centres (NTCs) require an appropriate mix of new and experienced staff to operate safely and efficiently. While initial modelling of projected workforce requirements was undertaken to inform earlier phases of our planning for the National Treatment Centre programme, detailed plans relating to the size and composition of the workforce for NTC Tayside will be developed by the Board and submitted to the Scottish Government as part of the wider planning and approval process for the site in operation.

Question reference: S6W-19966

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2023
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 7 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many of the 1,500 new clinical and non-clinical staff, as committed to in its NHS Recovery Plan, will be based in the National Treatment Centre Fife.

National Treatment Centres (NTCs) require an appropriate mix of new and experienced staff to operate safely and efficiently. Management information provided by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) shows that at 31 March 2023, 93 people were employed in NTC Fife. 23 are new entrants meaning they are undertaking their first role in NHS Scotland. Whilst these figures from NES are classed as management information at this stage, NES will continue to work with data providers to develop these as Official Statistics. The next step in this process will be to release these statistics within the NHS Scotland workforce publication as Experimental Statistics in December 2023. NTC workforce data will be reported every six months thereafter.

Question reference: S6W-20000

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2023
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 7 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what the original timetable was for the (a) completion and (b) opening of the planned National Treatment Centre Grampian, and what the revised timetable is as of 30 June 2023.

Question reference: S6W-19982

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2023
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 7 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many of the 1,500 new clinical and non-clinical staff, committed to in its NHS Recovery Plan, will be based in the National Treatment Centre Golden Jubilee Phase 2.

Question reference: S6W-19977

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2023
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 7 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what the revised number of patients is that will be treated in the National Treatment Centre Forth Valley, and how this compares to the targets set out in its NHS Recovery Plan.

Question reference: S6W-19958

Asked by: Russell Findlay, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 14 July 2023
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 7 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken in response to reported incidences of fire-raising of vehicles belonging to prison service staff.

I have asked Teresa Medhurst, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. Her response is as follows:

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-19957 on 7 August 2023. 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-19894

Asked by: Stephanie Callaghan, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 7 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on the latest known levels of people in the 25- to 64-year-old population who have been educated to tertiary level in Scotland, and on how this compares to the levels in (a) England and (b) Wales.

Information on the share of population 25 to 64 years old with tertiary education is published by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and is available here.

	2020	2021	2022
Scotland	55.7	55.2	57.9
Wales	43.4	44.3	46.3
Northern Ireland	44.1	48.8	42.3
North East England	38.1	39.7	39.3
North West England	44.0	44.0	47.0
Yorkshire and The Humber	41.4	44.4	45.0
East Midlands	43.8	42.6	43.8
West Midlands	43.1	44.2	45.1
East of England	44.6	45.2	47.1
Greater London	68.4	69.8	69.9
South East England	51.8	51.6	54.1
South West England	47.2	48.0	48.4
United Kingdom	49.4	50.1	..

Source: OECD Regional Education, July 2023

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Question reference: S6W-20109

Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 July 2023
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 7 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of all crimes were cybercrimes in the last year for which figures are available.

In 2022-23 there were an estimated 14,890 police recorded cyber-crimes, accounting for 5% of all recorded crime in Scotland. This estimate is based on a review of crime records, whereby a random sample of cases was drawn across Scotland for those types of crime that could in theory involve a cyber-element.

Of these 14,890 estimated cyber-crimes, the most common types were crimes of fraud (57%), sexual crimes (26%) and crimes of threats and extortion (12%).

The estimate of Police recorded cyber-crime does not provide information on the characteristics of all cyber-crime committed in society, as not all these crimes are reported to the police. To better understand cyber-crime committed in Scotland, including those cases not reported to the police, an updated section on fraud and computer misuse has been included in the 2023-24 Scottish Crime and Justice Survey.

Question reference: S6W-20002

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2023
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 7 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many of the 1,500 new clinical and non-clinical staff, committed to in its NHS Recovery Plan, will be based in the National Treatment Centre Grampian.

National Treatment Centres (NTCs) require an appropriate mix of new and experienced staff to operate safely and efficiently. While initial modelling of projected workforce requirements was undertaken to inform earlier phases of our planning for the National Treatment Centre programme, detailed plans relating to the size and composition of the workforce for NTC Grampian will be developed by the Board and submitted to the Scottish Government as part of the wider planning and approval process for the site in operation.

Question reference: S6W-19970

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 July 2023
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 7 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many of the 1,500 new clinical and non-clinical staff, committed to in its NHS Recovery Plan, will be based in the National Treatment Centre Golden Jubilee Phase 1.

National Treatment Centres (NTCs) require an appropriate mix of new and experienced staff to operate safely and efficiently. Management information provided by NHS Education for Scotland (NES) shows that at 31 March 2023, 158 people were employed in NTC Golden Jubilee. 38 are new entrants meaning they are undertaking their first role in NHS Scotland. Whilst these figures from NES are classed as management information at this stage, NES will continue to work with data providers to develop these as Official Statistics. The next step in this process will be to release these statistics within the NHS Scotland workforce publication as Experimental Statistics in December 2023. NTC workforce data will be reported every six months thereafter.