Chamber and committees

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-20927 on 19 September 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 .

The Scottish Government does not routinely collect or monitor information on local authority autism strategies for data purposes.

We have previously noted that it is for organisations responsible for buildings to make information on this issue available for affected buildings.

Survey work is underway across public buildings and is at various stages of discovery in different sectors.

Where the presence of RAAC is confirmed in a public building, we expect the owner to take appropriate measures to assess and manage any risk identified, following the Institution for Structural Engineer’s current guidance on this process.

We remain in regular contact with organisations across the public sector on this matter, directly and through our cross-sector working group.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-20927 on 19 September 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 .

The Scottish Government does not hold this information. Detail on how funding has been used specifically for the assessment and treatment of chronic pain would require to be requested from NHS Boards.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-20714 on 19 September 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

As stated in the reply to SW6-20231, the Scottish Government does not hold the information requested as responsibility for managing Police Scotland’s call handling system, including the collection of data for non-emergency 101 calls, rests with the Chief Constable of Scotland.

This information is also already in the public domain. Police Scotland regularly publish performance data, including for the non-emergency 101 service, on their website with the most recent information available at Call Handling Reports 2023 - Police Scotland . It should be noted that information for August 2023 has not yet been published, however we can provide information for the number of calls received during September to December 2022 as outlined below:

The ETSU steering group comprising of the four Governments of the UK is considering, under the lead of the UK Government, how best to take forward the recommendations of the WSP report .

Until this work concludes, ETSU-R-97 should continue to be followed by applicants and used to assess and rate noise from wind energy developments.

Scottish Government officials continue to engage with UK Government officials on this work.

The Scottish Government is committed to expanding electronic monitoring use across a broader range of licences and community orders, including exploring use of remote alcohol monitoring as provided for by the Management of Offenders (Scotland) Act 2019.

Following passage of the Act a new national contract was procured that would allow for use of new technology. The majority of the Act has now been commenced and from 17 May 2022 provisions were commenced to allow electronic monitoring as part of bail and to allow electronic monitoring with Community Payback Orders at first disposal. As work continues to embed these recent changes, we are now engaging with justice partners to explore the potential uses of new technologies, including remote substance monitoring technologies.

The number of full time equivalent pupil support assistants by Local Authority is available in the school support staff statistics: https://www.gov.scot/publications/school-support-staff-statistics/

A summary of the changes from 2018 to 2022 is provided in the following table.