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ScotRail advises it has 284 stations that have live images streaming back to the centres. The rest have internet protocol cameras or cameras with secure digital cards. The only stations that do not have CCTV are Altnabreac and Dunrobin Castle.

We remain determined to reduce alcohol-related harms and take a proportionate, whole population approach to address them. For example, we are reviewing our world-leading Minimum Unit Pricing as well as Alcohol Brief Intervention Programme.

We are also working collaboratively with Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADPs) across Scotland to understand and help resolve local issues and support them in identifying ways to improve services, such as monitoring waiting times. Last year, £106.8 million was made available to ADPs, and nationally there is ongoing work, including the upcoming UK Alcohol Treatment Guidelines and development of alcohol treatment targets for April 2024.

£250 million has been put in place over five-year National Mission to tackle drug-related harm and a substantial part of it offers help to those impacted by alcohol. This includes £100 million investment in residential rehabilitation, where the majority of patients are being treated for issues related either solely to alcohol or a combination of alcohol and drugs.

The Scottish Government continues to make progress to deliver on the Programme for Government commitment to develop a framework for Scotland which effectively tackles and challenges men’s demand for prostitution, and to support those with experience of it.

Principles to underpin the Framework were published in December 2022. The principles have been adopted across Scottish Government and we will look to have them incorporated within the planned refresh of Equally Safe, Scotland’s strategy to take action on all forms of violence against women and girls. The principles will also inform relevant policy and practice across the wider public and third sector, in turn supporting Scotland’s collective approach to tackling Commercial Sexual Exploitation.

The key focus throughout 2023 will be to use the principles to define the component parts of a Framework that will improve access to support for any adult with experience of prostitution, and at the same time challenge men’s demand. We anticipate being able to outline the component parts of the framework before the end of the year.

As with the development of the principles, we will continue to work with stakeholders as this work progresses and keep them advised of progress.

The Scottish Government are investing £7.08m through the Scottish Safety Camera Programme in 2023-24 to reduce the number of casualties on Scotland’s roads by encouraging improved driver behaviour through the targeted deployment of safety cameras.

A range of safety camera resources are already deployed across the North Coast 500 and plans are in place to increase the level of resources during peak tourist season.

In addition, Transport Scotland are in regular discussions with local stakeholders to explore ways to further enhance road safety in the north of Scotland. This includes discussion through the Road Safety Framework Local Partnership Forum – North which next meets on 15 June 2023.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-17540 on 11 May 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 .

Circularity Scotland are working on the agreement currently and will update in due course. Producers can contact Circularity Scotland directly for updates.

Neither the Scottish Government nor Health Boards hold data on privately paid prescriptions provided by independent healthcare providers.

With limited powers and a constrained budget the Scottish Government has already increased Scottish Child Payment by 150% in less than 8 months over 2022. Since its extension to under 16s in November 2022, 385,000 children are now eligible for the benefit.

As part of 'Best Start, Bright Futures', the Scottish Government published a Cumulative Impact Assessment in March 2022, estimating the impact in 2023-24 of a range of policies designed to reduce child poverty. This included lifting an estimated 50,000 children out of poverty in Scotland in 2023-24 through the Scottish Child Payment at £25 per week per child, a five percentage point reduction in relative child poverty.

The context for those policies has changed since this analysis was published, with a constantly moving, uncertain economic outlook, and a series of policy announcements, retractions, and further announcements by the UK Government.

The Scottish Government will publish the annual progress report on child poverty, covering the period 2022-23, by the end of June. This will set out progress in implementing 'Best Start, Bright Futures', the Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan: 2022-26, and against the ambitious targets set through the Child Poverty (Scotland) Act 2017.

The Scottish Government understands that details of the Deposit Return Scheme are matters of public interest and should be properly scrutinised and debated in parliament. We are committed to transparency and openness in our administration of the Deposit Return Scheme, and going forward we aim to proactively publish on a monthly basis key information such as notes of meetings, letters, and other information which will help people understand how decisions are made.

This commitment to publish information must be balanced against the continued need to protect peoples personal data, and meet our commitments to protecting commercially confidential information. This is in line with the General Data Protection Regulation, Environmental Information Regulations, and other legal obligations.

The total estimated value of applications received to the Social Housing Net Zero Heat Fund since it was established is £62,951,713 for capital funding and £1,105,865 for development funding.

The applications include projects submitted under Theme 1 for Zero Emissions Heating Systems for Social Housing across Scotland and Theme 2 for “Fabric First” Energy Efficiency Only Projects.