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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.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
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Question reference: S6T-01111

Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what it steps it is taking to ensure teachers are equipped to discuss and address the issue of extremist online misogyny with pupils.

Question reference: S6F-01754

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 January 2023

To ask the First Minister what steps the Scottish Government is taking to increase uptake of the HPV vaccine, in light of warnings from Jo’s Trust that girls in the most deprived areas of Scotland are missing out.

Question reference: S6F-01753

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 January 2023

To ask the First Minister what steps are being taken to tackle unethical and illegal dog breeding, in light of recent reports of high value extreme breeding programmes operating in Scotland.

Question reference: S6F-01740

Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 January 2023

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-01741

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 January 2023

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-01743

Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 January 2023

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to reports that dozens of people living in Scotland with no recourse to public funds are being made homeless and forced to sleep rough on the streets or in cars.

Question reference: S6F-01745

Asked by: John Mason, MSP for Glasgow Shettleston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 January 2023

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to the second round of the UK Government's Levelling Up Fund allocations in Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-13687

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what work it has undertaken with stakeholders to examine how workforce planning for team-based approaches to neurological care can augment the delivery and quality of services for people with neurology conditions.

Our National Workforce Strategy for Health and Social Care supports the remobilisation and recovery of health and social care services and sets out priorities for recruitment, training and retention. We anticipate that the Strategy will be used by workforce, service and financial planners across Health and Social Care at all levels.

Through this Workforce Strategy, and the NHS Recovery Plan, we are investing in staff so that they have the right skill mix and career progression opportunities.

Through our National Advisory Committee for Neurological Conditions, we are identifying priorities to strengthen the neurological workforce alongside the National Workforce Strategy, Remobilisation Plans and Rehabilitation Framework. We have scoped neurological workforce priorities and work has commenced to address these with a focus on nursing, allied health professionals (AHPs), neuropsychology and neurophysiology.

A Transforming Roles paper on Clinical Nurse Specialists (CNS) was published in 2021. Through the Centre for Sustainable Delivery, an expert group has been reviewing how existing CNS competencies for neurological conditions such as epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, motor neuron disease and Parkinson’s align to Transforming Roles with a view to identifying challenges or barriers to accessing training to develop and sustain this workforce.

We are testing with NHS neurology services in the West of Scotland, a workforce capacity planning tool for Allied Health Professionals that has been developed through the Healthcare Improvement Scotland Excellence in Care programme to help ensure staffing levels are in line with safe staffing legislation. An AHP Education & Workforce review has been completed with recommendations from that review being published early this year. Thereafter work will commence on an implementation plan.

We are undertaking work to better understand specialist service provision for people in Scotland with neurological conditions, through which we aim to develop an approach to ensure reliable information and workforce data is available and informs actions.

This will consider existing roles, specialities, subspecialties, and developments in advanced Health Care Assistants, key workers and third sector speciality regarding neurological care. The process will also align with relevant commitments from the Neurological Framework, Transforming Roles agenda and the National Workforce Strategy.

Question reference: S6W-13722

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 23 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what progress ScotRail has made towards its goal of becoming a menopause friendly accredited business by the end of January 2023.

ScotRail is committed to becoming a menopause friendly employer and has delivered “Let’s Talk about Menopause” training to its Executive Committee and eighty of its senior leaders.

ScotRail designed and delivered training for colleagues in ScotRail and the wider UK rail industry to celebrate World Menopause Month in October 2022 and has plans to offer Train the Trainer sessions with other ScotRail staff. ScotRail’s aim is then to roll out a programme of menopause awareness training across the organisation.

Applications for the Menopause Friendly Accreditation (MFA) are open four times each year and ScotRail’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Manager is currently in the process of collating evidence to submit with its audit survey which ScotRail intends to do by end February 2023.

Question reference: S6W-13689

Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 January 2023
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what work it has done with stakeholders to raise awareness of the information and resources available on neurological conditions.

Public-facing information about neurological conditions is being developed for the NHS Inform website, to support education and self-management.

New or revised pages have been published on Functional Neurological Disorder, Multiple Sclerosis, Huntington’s Disease, Transverse Myelitis, Migraine, Myasthenia Gravis, Post-Polio Syndrome, Epilepsy, Motor Neuron Disease, and on eight types of Muscular Dystrophy. Further pages currently in development include Cerebral Palsy, Ataxia, Tourette’s Syndrome, Multiple Spinal Atrophy, Parkinson’s Disease, Dystonia and Progressive Supranuclear Palsy.

Through the Neurological Care and Support – a National Framework for Action 2020-25 , we have funded a number of projects which have developed or are developing information to support people to better understand their neurological conditions. I further refer the member to the Neurological Care And Support: A Framework For Action 2020-2025 – Midpoint Progress Report , which was published on 13 July 2022 for further detail.