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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: S5W-24760

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-24371 by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 August 2019, which NHS boards have waiting lists for access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), broken down by the waiting time.

Question reference: S5W-24787

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how many unlicensed acupuncturists there are in each NHS board area.

Responsibility for enforcing tattooing and skin piercing, including acupuncture, legislation lies with Local Authorities.

This falls within the remit of Local Authorities who have the statutory responsibility under The Civil Government (Scotland) Act 1982 (Licensing of Skin Piercing and Tattooing) Order 2006 which came into force in Scotland on 1st April 2006 and gives Local Authorities the power to license individuals who carry out skin piercing or tattooing activities as a business.

Question reference: S5W-24786

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many cases of pneumothorax (collapsed lung) have been recorded by each NHS board in each year since 2015-16, broken down by cause.

The information requested is not held centrally. However, the number of NHS Scotland hospital admissions with pneumothorax (spontaneous tension pneumothorax and other pneumothorax ) and the number of hospital admissions with traumatic pneumothorax are shown in Table 1 and Table 2 respectively.

Table 1

Number of NHS Scotland hospital admissions with spontaneous tension pneumothorax and other pneumothorax in each year since 2015-16, by health board and financial year.

	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19p
Golden Jubilee National Hospital	229	215	189	198
NHS Ayrshire & Arran	92	95	94	82
NHS Borders	27	14	18	19
NHS Dumfries & Galloway	24	35	29	28
NHS Fife	48	71	52	56
NHS Forth Valley	58	46	62	56
NHS Grampian	118	128	131	104
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde	284	294	254	286
NHS Highland	34	42	41	50
NHS Lanarkshire	112	113	119	109
NHS Lothian	379	302	307	313
NHS Orkney	6	5	5	*
NHS Shetland	*	*	7	*
NHS Tayside	96	97	79	96
NHS Western Isles	*	*	*	*

* indicates suppression

p indicates provisional data

Source: ISD Scotland, SMR01

Date extracted: August 2019

Table 2

Number of NHS Scotland hospital admissions with traumatic pneumothorax in each year since 2015-16, by health board and financial year.

	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19p
Golden Jubilee National Hospital	8	5	*	*
NHS Ayrshire & Arran	42	35	48	46
NHS Borders	17	17	19	20
NHS Dumfries & Galloway	18	20	23	16
NHS Fife	35	37	27	37
NHS Forth Valley	31	13	17	25
NHS Grampian	59	73	86	79
NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde	186	182	191	186
NHS Highland	30	41	38	42
NHS Lanarkshire	64	59	94	80
NHS Lothian	99	113	113	138
NHS Orkney	*	0	*	*
NHS Shetland	*	*	*	0
NHS Tayside	41	39	59	52
NHS Western Isles	*	*	*	*

* indicates suppression

p indicates provisional data

Source: ISD Scotland, SMR01

Date extracted: August 2019

Question reference: S5W-24834

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to review regulations relating to the marketing of vaping products in supermarkets and other retail outlets.

The Scottish Government is committed to consult and legislate on restricting the advertising and promotion of e-cigarettes. This will make Scotland the first country in Europe to do so. The proposed restrictions will not apply to any public health campaigns or adverts, and the proposal is to allow advertising at point of sale provided it is not seen from outside the premises.

The Scottish Government will launch this consultation around the end of 2019. The restrictions proposed will cover domestic advertising of e-cigarettes – on bill boards, on leaflets, on bus shelters etc. Advertising on TV, on the radio, on-line and in newspapers and magazines is already banned.

Question reference: S5W-24689

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 12 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 3 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the provisional levels of spending for the Tackling Child Poverty Fund set out in the report, Every Child, Every Chance: Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan: First year Progress Report 2018-19, to what areas or projects the remaining £18 million of the Fund will be allocated.

Question reference: S5T-01752

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 02 September 2019
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government by what date the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh will open.

Question reference: S5W-24642

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether the current ventilation issues at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People are different to those that caused NHS Lothian to reportedly threaten in April 2018 to take legal action against Integrated Health Solutions Lothian, and how that dispute was resolved.

Question reference: S5W-24657

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the BBC report, Union warns Edinburgh’s £150m hospital may never open, which states that UNISON claims that NHS Lothian has paid millions of pounds in a settlement to help resolve some of the problems at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, how much has been paid; when this was approved; who approved it; when the Scottish Government learned of the arrangement, and whether it will place the details of the arrangement and all accompanying documentation in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe).

Question reference: S5W-24645

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, prior to the opening being postponed in July 2019, how many patients were scheduled to have appointments at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, broken down by month.

Question reference: S5W-24659

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government when the Royal Hospital for Sick Children was due to be handed to developers; what flexibility there is in this arrangement, and whether NHS Lothian will incur any penalties for a late handover.