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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-25186

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 12 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, since the introduction of annual health checks for adults with a learning disability in May 2022, how many adults have received such a health check.

Question reference: S6W-25185

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 12 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, since the introduction of annual health checks for adults with a learning disability in May 2022, how many adults have been offered such a health check.

This information is not currently collected by the Scottish Government. The National Directions for Annual Health Checks state that all eligible people with a learning disability should be offered an annual health check by 31 March 2024. The Scottish Government will be asking Health Boards to report on numbers of people offered annual health checks and number of health checks received after this date.

Question reference: S6W-25187

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 12 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, since the introduction of annual health checks for adults with a learning disability in May 2022, how many adults had received such a health check by 31 March 2023.

Question reference: S6W-24908

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 12 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to the Craigo Community Association since 2019.

Question reference: S6W-25188

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 12 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, since the introduction of annual health checks for adults with a learning disability in May 2022, what percentage of eligible adults have received such a health check.

Question reference: S6W-24910

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 12 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to The Poverty Alliance since 2019.

The Scottish Government has provided The Poverty Alliance with funding to support a number of initiatives aimed at ensuring that the insights of people who have lived experienced of poverty inform policy and delivery. This is in addition to funding for the Living Wage Scotland Accreditation and Recognition Project which aims to increase the number of workers in Scotland receiving a pay increase to the real Living Wage, increase the number of Living Hours accredited employers, support policy development and grow the Living Wage movement.

Additional payments were also made to procure the development of guidance, venue hire and catering, travel expenses and the delivery of workshops.

Due to the volume of information, full detail of objectives for grant funding from 2019 onwards has been placed in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre under Bib. number 64875.

Question reference: S6W-25437

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S6W-24893

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 9 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it undertook any action to mark Clean Air Night on 24 January 2024.

Clean Air Night 2024 was the first such event, and has been introduced to complement Clean Air Day, which has taken place since 2017 with funding support from the Scottish Government.

The Scottish Government will consider how to engage with future Clean Air Night activities in the context of the public engagement framework around air quality which we are developing with partner organisations. It will include a focus on raising awareness of the impact of domestic fuel combustion emissions, which was the overarching theme of Clean Air Night.

Question reference: S6W-24926

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 9 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the reported plans to increase household water bills by almost 30% over the next three years.

Question reference: S6W-24905

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2024
Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 9 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what objectives it set for any funding that it has provided to SAY Women since 2019.

The Scottish Government has provided funding to SAY Women through the Equally Safe (2019-21) and Delivering Equally Safe Fund (2021-25). The objectives of funding are to improve mental and physical health amongst young women survivors of sexual abuse; to support them to cope with trauma-anxiety in order to reduce self-harming, substance abuse, and poverty; and to reduce challenging behaviours that can lead to homelessness amongst young women.

In 2019-20, 2020-21, 2021-22 the Scottish Government provided funding to SAY Women through the Housing Voluntary Grant Scheme with the objective of delivering safe, supported accommodation and related services for young women who are survivors of childhood sexual abuse, rape or sexual assault and who are homeless or threatened with homelessness.

In 2020-21 the Scottish Government provided funding through the COVID Immediate Priorities Fund for SAY Women to deliver enhanced independent living support to vulnerable individuals and those in need as a result of COVID-19. The objective was to help communities respond to the needs and challenges they were experiencing, and to protect the wellbeing of the people of Scotland.

The Scottish Government has also provided funding through the Third Sector Homelessness Fund (2021-22, 2022-23) and the Homelessness Sector Prevention Fund (2023-24) with the objective of preventing and responding to homelessness among survivors of childhood sexual abuse. This supported the delivery of training to frontline staff, and work to support young women survivors of childhood sexual abuse under threat of eviction due to challenging behaviours.