Questions and answers

Question reference: S6O-01278

Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what measures it is putting in place to mitigate the impact of industrial action by rail workers, including on the night-time economy.

Question reference: S6O-01281

Asked by: Jim Fairlie, MSP for Perthshire South and Kinross-shire, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what work it is undertaking to ensure there is a suitable and sustainable EV charging network in place across Scotland.

Question reference: S6O-01280

Asked by: Fiona Hyslop, MSP for Linlithgow, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its Hydrogen Action Plan.

Question reference: S6O-01279

Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making to address the reported recruitment and retention problems in the delivery of care at home.

Question reference: S6O-01282

Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how it will address the reported shortage of nurses in rural areas.

Question reference: S6O-01277

Asked by: Colin Smyth, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with NHS Dumfries and Galloway regarding the reinstatement of inpatient births at the Community Maternity Unit within the Galloway Community Hospital.

Question reference: S6O-01276

Asked by: Jenni Minto, MSP for Argyll and Bute, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to tackle population decline in the Argyll and Bute constituency and other rural areas.

Question reference: S6W-09009

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 10 June 2022
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 15 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether the removal of £489 million from the Scottish Water budget in the Resource Spending Review will have any impact on water charges for customers.

Question reference: S6W-08985

Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2022
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 15 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider extending the Fair Fares review to include the Aberdeen-Inverness train line, in light of the public ownership of ScotRail and in order to tackle congestion on the A96 and reduce carbon emissions.

The Scottish Government is undertaking a Fair Fares Review to ensure a sustainable and integrated approach to public transport fares as the country recovers from the pandemic.

The Fair Fares Review will look at the range of discounts and concessionary schemes which are available on all modes including bus, rail and ferry across the whole of Scotland. The Fair Fares Review will also take into account the cost and availability of services, and will consider options that take cognisance of the relative changes to the overall cost of travel. Public transport services between Inverness and Aberdeen, including rail services, will therefore be considered as part of the wider review.

Question reference: S6W-08924

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 June 2022
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 15 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been diagnosed with an eating disorder in each year since 1999.

Public Health Scotland (PHS) does not hold comprehensive data on the number of people diagnosed with an eating disorder since 1999.

However, we can provide data on the number of child and adult patients admitted in NHS psychiatric or general/acute hospitals, either as day cases or inpatients, with an eating disorder in any diagnostic field, for the period 2007-2021. The data is disaggregated by age group (child or adult), calendar year, and health board of residence.

Child Patients 2007 -2021

Number of child 1 patients 2 admitted to a general/acute or mental health specialty 3 , either as an inpatient or day case, with an eating disorder 4 ; by year of admission and NHS health board of patient residence, 2007 - 2021.

	Year of Admission
NHS Board	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Ayrshire and Arran	*	5	*	5	*	*	8	*	5	5	*	*	7	13	*
Borders	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	5	5	15	5	5	9
Dumfries and Galloway	*	*	*	*	-	*	*	8	6	*	*	6	*	*	9
Fife	*	*	6	*	6	5	*	*	*	*	6	10	9	9	16
Forth Valley	-	*	*	-	*	8	*	*	*	7	8	8	9	19	16
Grampian	7	*	9	7	11	16	7	12	10	9	14	9	10	14	22
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	16	7	7	8	9	10	17	25	13	13	16	14	17	32	38
Highland	5	11	5	*	*	14	9	14	17	6	7	*	8	17	26
Lanarkshire	*	6	*	6	7	8	12	7	*	10	11	12	19	17	26
Lothian	15	12	16	17	17	14	18	25	35	25	22	23	28	31	45
Orkney	*	*	-	-	*	*	*	*	*	-	-	-	*	-	*
Other	*	-	*	-	-	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	-	-	-
Shetland	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	-
Tayside	*	7	11	9	8	10	12	12	9	12	6	11	7	22	18
Western Isles	-	-	-	-	-	-	*	*	*	-	*	*	*	-	-
Total	60	62	69	61	72	94	98	119	109	102	108	122	125	184	233

Notes

* - Denotes values which have been suppressed to protect patient confidentiality.

1. A child is defined as someone whose age on admission was less than 18

2. Patients will be counted multiple times if they have been admitted within the same board in different years, or different boards in the same year, or both. A patient will be counted as both an adult and a child in the year they turn 18 if they had an episode when they were 17 and a subsequent episode that year aged 18.

3. The numbers represented show those who have been admitted to hospital and do not include those diagnosed in other settings. Therefore, these figures are likely to be undercount of the total number of people diagnosed with an eating disorder

4. Patients identified are those with an ICD-10 code of F50 in any of 6 diagnostic fields. Further information can be found on the ICD-10 website: https://icd.who.int/browse10/2019/en.

5. The "Other" category is a combination of the following health board categories: "Rest of UK (Outside Scotland)", "Outside the UK", "No Fixed Abode" and "Unknown residency".

Adult Patients 2007 - 2021

Number of adult 1 patients 2 admitted to a general/acute or mental health specialty 3 , either as an inpatient or day case, with an eating disorder 4 ; by year of admission and NHS health board of patient residence, 2007 - 2021.

	Year of Admission
NHS Board	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021
Ayrshire and Arran	19	17	17	18	20	13	16	15	15	23	19	21	19	23	23
Borders	7	7	*	7	8	11	11	7	*	10	*	9	10	14	9
Dumfries and Galloway	7	9	9	11	13	6	10	14	13	17	17	15	12	14	17
Fife	22	15	21	10	14	14	17	18	17	17	26	21	21	21	23
Forth Valley	7	7	8	9	17	10	15	11	9	13	19	19	24	34	28
Grampian	36	30	35	27	31	36	33	47	41	32	40	41	37	38	28
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	47	53	51	45	37	61	58	68	67	63	67	65	80	64	71
Highland	17	11	24	23	36	21	26	34	27	24	34	41	41	37	23
Lanarkshire	24	17	17	20	26	34	26	23	27	41	34	47	39	36	40
Lothian	57	56	48	46	32	69	62	60	58	63	49	58	66	91	77
Orkney	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	-	*	-	*	*
Other	*	*	*	*	*	5	*	22	39	50	29	20	23	30	22
Shetland	*	*	*	*	-	*	*	*	-	*	-	*	*	*	*
Tayside	17	15	15	23	22	29	22	26	19	21	23	21	16	17	27
Western Isles	-	-	*	*	-	*	*	-	-	*	*	*	*	*	*
Total	264	241	261	249	261	313	307	349	345	379	368	387	391	424	392

Notes

* - Denotes values which have been suppressed to protect patient confidentiality.

1. An adult is someone whose age on admission was 18 or older.

2. Patients will be counted multiple times if they have been admitted within the same board in different years, or different boards in the same year, or both. A patient will be counted as both an adult and a child in the year they turn 18 if they had an episode when they were 17 and a subsequent episode that year aged 18.

3. The numbers represented show those who have been admitted to hospital and do not include those diagnosed in other settings. Therefore, these figures are likely to be undercount of the total number of people diagnosed with an eating disorder.

4. Patients identified are those with an ICD-10 code of F50 in any of 6 diagnostic fields. Further information can be found on the ICD-10 website: https://icd.who.int/browse10/2019/en.

5. The "Other" category is a combination of the following health board categories: "Rest of UK (Outside Scotland)", "Outside the UK", "No Fixed Abode" and "Unknown residency".

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