- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Submitting member has a registered interest.
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Date lodged: Thursday, 11 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenni Minto on 25 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding recommendation 36 in the British Academy of Audiology report into NHS Lothian paediatric audiology services, how many children have since been recalled following the review of the permanent congenital hearing impairment (PCHI) record.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-17864 on 23 May 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
- Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Natalie Don on 25 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the Whole Family Wellbeing Fund, what progress it has made towards fulfilling its ambition that "at least 5% of all community-based health and social care spending will be invested in preventative whole family support measures by 2030".
Answer
The Scottish Government remains committed to the ambition. We are working with partners to explore how we can enable the transformational change required to ensure that by 2030 at least 5% of all community-based health and social care spend across Scotland is invested in preventative whole family support measures.
This includes providing £32m of Whole Family Wellbeing Funding on an annual basis to Children's Services Planning Partnerships to shift investment towards timely and sustainable early intervention and prevention activities that are flexible, responsive and proportionate to ensure families can access the support they need, when they need it and where they need it, before they reach crisis point.
- Asked by: Colin Smyth, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 12 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Emma Roddick on 25 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recommendations in the Scope research publication, Disability Price Tag 2023: the extra cost of disability.
Answer
The Scottish Government recognises the findings that have been highlighted within the Disability Price Tag 2023 report, that disabled people have been disproportionately impacted by the current cost-of-living crisis.
One of the First Minister’s first acts upon taking office was to increase the budget for our Fuel Insecurity Fund to £30 million for 2023-24 to ensure support is available to households who would otherwise be at risk of self-rationing their energy use, or self-disconnecting entirely. Assistance is provided on the basis of a holistic assessment of individuals’ circumstances, which can include increased energy usage arising from the need to run essential medical devices.
The Scottish Government provide a range of disability benefits to help disabled people and those with long-term conditions. These benefits provide financial support to disabled people to mitigate the additional costs of living with a disability or health condition. In recognition of the cost crisis, all Scottish Government social security benefits were increased by 10.1% in April, except for Scottish Child Payment, which was uprated early, with an investment of around £430 million. This uprating is in line with inflation as measured by the Consumer Prices Index.
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 25 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the longest delay has been, between the point of application and receipt of the first payment, for the processing of a Child Disability Payment claim to date.
Answer
I refer the member to the question S6W-17628 on 25 May 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 .
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenni Minto on 25 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the report, Scottish Government Pain Management Panel, for what reasons it decided that the panel should (a) be comprised of individuals who had not been part of past studies and (b) not include people who (i) were involved with previous research and (ii) carry out advocacy activities on chronic pain issues.
Answer
Previous Governance models for Scottish Government chronic pain policy have involved people with lived experience in a variety of methods – including individual representation, a wider reference group of lived experience, elected representatives and members of chronic pain or associated other condition advocacy groups. Views from these groups had therefore already been solicited to help inform the development of the Framework.
Our Equality and Impact Assessment for the Framework identified the need to amplify the voices of groups of people who may be impacted by chronic pain but typically overlooked when it comes to engagement as they are not members of organised groups associated with a condition. Therefore there was a specific requirement for participants to be recruited independently of existing groups and structures to broaden the reach of engagement and ensure diversity of experience was included.
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 25 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time is, between the point of application and receipt of the first payment, for Social Security Scotland to process a Child Disability Payment claim.
Answer
Official statistics covering processing times for Child Disability Payment are published as a part of the regularly scheduled quarterly publication. The latest Child Disability Payment statistical publication was published on Tuesday 16 May 2023. Information on the average processing time by month is included in table 9. This publication is available from https://www.gov.scot/collections/social-security-scotland-stats-publications/#benefitsforcarersanddisabilityassistance .
Processing time is the number of working days from part 2 of the application being received to a decision being made or the application being withdrawn. It does not include time to make payments. We would normally advise to allow up to 5 days to reach a bank account once a payment is authorised.
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenni Minto on 25 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the work carried out on its behalf by the social research agency, The Lines Between, in August and September 2022, which resulted in the report, Scottish Government Pain Management Panel, published in November 2022, how much in total was spent to facilitate the work.
Answer
I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-17454 on 12 May 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 .
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 May 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Gillian Martin on 25 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether the 32 winning projects of the Hydrogen Innovation Scheme, announced on 18 May 2023, received their funding via the Scottish National Investment Bank, and, if not, whether it will provide the rationale for this decision.
Answer
The Hydrogen Innovation Scheme is part of the Scottish Government’s £180m Emerging Energy Technologies Fund (EETF), which was announced by Scottish Ministers in the Climate Change Plan Update (December 2020). The EETF will support the development of the hydrogen sector and carbon capture and storage (CCS), including Negative Emissions Technologies (NETs) in Scotland by providing capital support until 2026 to accelerate low carbon infrastructure projects that will be essential to deliver net zero. The fund will make £100 million available to support hydrogen projects in line with our Hydrogen Policy Statement. The funding offered to the 32 successful applicants to the Hydrogen Innovation Scheme is the first tranche of this hydrogen funding programme.
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 April 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 25 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the real terms spending, based on current prices, was on Scottish schools, in each year since 2007.
Answer
Table 1 provides real terms expenditure based on 2021-22 prices for Scottish schools in each year since 2007. Real terms expenditure is broken down by primary, secondary, and special education.
Table 1: Real terms expenditure, 2007-08 to 2021-22 (£000)
Financial
Year | Primary
Education | Secondary
Education | Special
Education | School Education |
2007-08 | 2,291,312 | 2,570,000 | 641,962 | 5,503,273 |
2008-09 | 2,266,389 | 2,550,632 | 645,280 | 5,462,301 |
2009-10 | 2,238,327 | 2,469,714 | 656,351 | 5,364,393 |
2010-11 | 2,247,021 | 2,441,262 | 648,359 | 5,336,642 |
2011-12 | 2,185,497 | 2,330,489 | 619,960 | 5,135,945 |
2012-13 | 2,157,200 | 2,309,964 | 605,403 | 5,072,566 |
2013-14 | 2,143,300 | 2,257,681 | 607,647 | 5,008,629 |
2014-15 | 2,137,097 | 2,225,583 | 614,385 | 4,977,065 |
2015-16 | 2,178,851 | 2,226,211 | 628,597 | 5,033,659 |
2016-17 | 2,210,760 | 2,213,670 | 618,241 | 5,042,671 |
2017-18 | 2,277,852 | 2,210,339 | 622,918 | 5,111,109 |
2018-19 | 2,356,577 | 2,304,687 | 645,383 | 5,306,647 |
2019-20 | 2,434,207 | 2,395,751 | 678,111 | 5,508,069 |
2020-21 | 2,395,511 | 2,358,155 | 667,672 | 5,421,337 |
2021-22 | 2,553,716 | 2,503,212 | 704,929 | 5,761,857 |
Figures are adjusted to exclude inter-authority transfers. Inflation adjustments are based on HM Treasury’s 31 March 2023 GDP Deflator outturn data.
Sources:
1. Local Financial Returns – Education (LFR 01) statistical return provided by local authorities to the Scottish Government: Local government finance statistics - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)
2. GDP deflators at market prices: GDP deflators at market prices, and money GDP - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 May 2023
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 1 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what additional support it plans to provide to tourism, hospitality and leisure operators in the South Scotland region.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 1 June 2023
