Questions and answers

Question reference: S6W-04911

Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 2021
Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 21 December 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been killed in road accidents on the A90 between Dundee and Stonehaven in each quarter since 1 April 2018.

A90 Dundee to Stonehaven Fatal Casualties

(Between Emmock roundabout Dundee and where the A957 Slug Road crosses the A90 at Stonehaven)

Year - 2018	Number of Fatal Casualties
April – June	0
July – September	1
October – December	0

Year - 2019	Number of Fatal Casualties
January - March	3
April – June	0
July – September	1
October – December	0

Year – 2020	Number of Fatal Casualties
January – March	2
April – June	0
July – September	1
October – December	0

Year – 2021	Number of Fatal Casualties
January - March	0
April – June	0
July – September	0
October – 15 December	0

Source: Transport Scotland Accident Manager Database

Date data extracted: 15 December 2021

Transport Scotland only holds accident information which is provided to us by Police Scotland. Please note that the information provided is based on the current figures available at the time of retrieving the data from Transport Scotland’s accident manager system. The following are potential reasons for an accident not appearing on our system:

• Transport Scotland only holds accident information which is provided to us by Police Scotland.

• Transport Scotland does not hold information relating to damage only accidents (i.e. not involving an injury).

• Transport Scotland only holds accident information for the trunk road network.

• The accident information Transport Scotland holds is subject to change. E.g. we receive late returns from Police Scotland, who are responsible for recording details of injury accidents.

• Annual Scottish accident figures are published by Transport Scotland on a yearly basis and can be found by entering Reported Road Casualties Scotland into your search engine.

• From summer 2019, Police Scotland introduced a new system for recording traffic collisions. Due to improved recording and categorisation processes, it is expected that there will be an increase in the number of casualties and accidents on Scottish roads that are classified as serious. The evidence from other police forces within the UK that introduced the same system is that this increase will be around 20%. This increase would not reflect an actual change in the severity of accidents occurring on Scottish roads, but would instead reflect more accurate recording.

• Statisticians within the Department for Transport have devised a method for adjusting the road casualty figures to ensure that they can be compared over time on a consistent basis. Transport Scotland’s Key Reported Road Casualties and Reported Road Casualties statistics publications will present both adjusted and unadjusted figures.

Question reference: S6W-04896

Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 2021
Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 21 December 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how much compensation ScotRail has awarded to passengers in each month or four-week recording period since the beginning of 2019, and what the estimated unclaimed compensation has been in each of these months or periods.

ScotRail is required through the Franchise Agreement to provide a delay-repay scheme to passengers, which offers compensation when their journey is delayed by more than 30 minutes.

The Delay Repay scheme operates on a railway period reporting basis from April to March.

The following tables summarise the actual compensation ScotRail awarded to passengers in each four-week period since the 2018-2019 reporting period.

Year 2018-19	Total Paid £
Period 1	42,261.90
Period 2	44,924.23
Period 3	51,287.09
Period 4	107,277.52
Period 5	64,808.78
Period 6	54,628.81
Period 7	139,931.63
Period 8	130,002.42
Period 9	92,283.63
Period 10	142,333.06
Period 11	79,312.79
Period 12	69,881.40
Period 13	100,885.09

Year 2019-20	Total Paid £
Period 1	91,429.40
Period 2	73,875.72
Period 3	72,287.62
Period 4	86,505.59
Period 5	98,903.67
Period 6	133,842.09
Period 7	91,280.73
Period 8	91,614.16
Period 9	85,063.52
Period 10	80,166.92
Period 11	66,171.83
Period 12	91,144.58
Period 13	67,697.34

Year 2020-21	Total Paid £
Period 1	2,223.01
Period 2	883.04
Period 3	765.40
Period 4	3,833.78
Period 5	15,861.08
Period 6	16,983.27
Period 7	10,114.08
Period 8	9,499.96
Period 9	6,016.37
Period 10	5,845.59
Period 11	5,749.37
Period 12	9,705.36
Period 13	2,078.74

Year 2021-22	Total Paid £
Period 1	3,613.09
Period 2	10,988.17
Period 3	14,515.09
Period 4	18,907.19
Period 5	36,904.36
Period 6	25,300.68
Period 7	18,671.16
Period 8	34,179.00
Period 9 (to date)	52,951.00

Concerning an estimate figure for unclaimed delay repay is not something that is held by Transport Scotland or ScotRail.

Question reference: S6W-04695

Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 29 November 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 December 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) nurses, (b) GPs and (c) doctors other than GPs have been employed by NHS Ayrshire and Arran, in each of the last five years.

Numbers of staff in NHS Ayrshire and Arran are up in this Government by 13.6% or 1,104.6 WTE (from 8,114.1 WTE in September 2006 to 9,218.7 WTE in June 2021)<br>

The number of Nurses employed by NHS Ayrshire & Arran in the last five years can be found on the NHS Education for Scotland (NES) website on the following link: Nursing and Midwifery | Turas Data Intelligence (nhs.scot)

The number of GPs in each board is available at Table 2 of:

General Practice - GP Workforce and practice list sizes 2010 - 2020 - General Practice - GP workforce and practice list sizes - Publications - Public Health Scotland

The next update, including figures for 30 September 2021, is published on 14 December.

The number of Doctors other than GP's including Consultants, doctors in training and other trained doctors employed by NHS Ayrshire & Arran in the last five years can be found on the NES website on the following link:

Medical and Dental | Turas Data Intelligence (nhs.scot)

Question reference: S6W-04915

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 2021
Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 21 December 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it recommends that cyclists wear a helmet.

Wearing a helmet is a matter of personal choice, not a requirement.

The wearing of cycle helmets is covered by the Highway Code and is a matter reserved to the UK Government. It recommends wearing a cycle helmet which conforms to current regulations, is the correct size and securely fastened, if cyclists choose to do so.

The Scottish Government is committed to improving the safety of all vulnerable road users through a variety of means including the building of safe, high quality active travel infrastructure, providing training and encouraging good road user behaviour with mutual respect.

Question reference: S6W-04895

Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 09 December 2021
Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 21 December 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what cycling projects it has supported in each of the regional transport partnership areas, and how much funding it has provided for these in each year since 2017.

Question reference: S6W-04894

Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 December 2021
Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 21 December 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) fatal and (b) serious accidents there have been on each road in the trunk road and motorway network in each year since 2017.

The following table presents the total number of fatal and serious accidents for 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. However, the information on the total number of fatal and serious accidents for 2021 are only available up to the date stated in the table.

	Fatal and Serious Collisions 2017 to 2021
Route	2017		2018		2019		2020		2021		TOTAL
Route	Serious	Fatal	Serious	Fatal	Serious	Fatal	Serious	Fatal	Serious ‎ up to 7 Sept	Fatal ‎ up to 13 Dec
A1	5	2	7	1	3	0	9	1	6	0	34
A6091	0	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	1	2	8
A68	3	0	7	2	5	0	2	2	5	0	26
A7	1	1	4	2	4	0	2	0	4	0	18
A701	3	0	6	1	3	0	0	0	3	0	16
A702	8	1	1	3	4	0	4	0	4	0	25
A720	2	0	10	0	10	1	4	0	2	0	29
A725	4	0	4	1	5	0	5	0	2	0	21
A726	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	6
A737	7	1	5	0	7	0	4	0	3	0	27
A738	0	0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	3
A75	7	3	8	1	7	2	7	1	10	2	48
A751	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
A76	3	1	11	2	5	0	4	2	5	1	34
A77	13	4	10	1	17	2	10	0	6	1	64
A78	13	0	12	0	7	0	10	2	9	0	53
A8	3	1	2	0	4	1	3	1	3	0	18
A82	25	7	20	4	27	7	22	5	16	6	139
A828	0	0	5	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	9
A83	7	1	6	2	17	0	6	1	3	1	44
A830	1	0	0	0	2	2	1	0	1	0	7
A835	0	0	2	4	5	1	2	0	2	0	16
A84	7	1	5	0	7	0	3	1	0	1	25
A85	11	1	15	0	13	4	11	0	3	4	62
A86	3	0	3	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	7
A87	4	0	4	2	5	1	7	0	5	1	29
A876	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	0	4
A887	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
A889	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
A893	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
A898	1	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	1	0	6
A9	15	5	27	10	35	6	19	2	15	4	138
A90	27	2	19	1	26	3	19	5	11	1	114
A92	10	0	15	0	10	1	16	2	4	0	58
A95	5	1	2	0	4	0	2	0	1	0	15
A956	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
A96	12	2	11	1	16	5	9	3	8	2	69
A972	0	0	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	3
A977	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	2
A985	1	0	3	0	4	2	3	2	1	0	16
A99	1	0	0	0	1	0	2	0	0	1	5
M8	12	1	14	1	21	1	16	6	23	3	98
M74	7	2	7	5	21	5	17	1	9	3	77
M73	0	0	1	1	2	0	1	0	2	0	7
M77	4	0	5	0	1	0	3	0	1	0	14
M80	4	1	5	0	8	1	3	0	2	1	25
M823	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	1	2
M876	2	0	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	0	6
M898	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
M9	5	0	5	2	6	1	5	1	4	0	29
M90	6	0	5	0	8	1	4	1	3	1	29
TOTAL	248	38	271	49	328	49	246	39	184	36	1488