- Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2023
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2023
To ask the First Minister what impact the proposed pay settlement for teachers, if accepted, will have on other Scottish Government budgets.
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Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2023
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2023
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2023
To ask the First Minister, in light of Scottish Apprenticeship Week this week, how the Scottish Government is supporting people into apprenticeships.
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Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2023
- Asked by: Tess White, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2023
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2023
To ask the First Minister whether she will provide an update on the Scottish Government's progress towards reducing the number of people on hospital waiting lists and ending long waits for NHS treatment.
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Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2023
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2023
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2023
To ask the First Minister what action the Scottish Government is taking to support homeowners seeking to reduce their energy bills.
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Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2023
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2023
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2023
Question to be taken in Chamber.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2023
- Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2023
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Current Status:
Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2023
Question to be taken in Chamber.
Answer
Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2023
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 February 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Keith Brown on 6 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-14658 by Keith Brown on 22 February 2023, whether it will provide a breakdown of the statistics by local authority area.
Answer
The requested information on the number of recorded crimes of having in a school an article with a blade or point, split by local authority area, is provided below. As with the national picture, at least part of any reduction at the local authority level during 2020-21 (and any subsequent increase in 2021-22) will likely reflect the closure of the school estate during the pandemic related lockdowns.
Table 1: Having in a school an article with a blade or point not used in other criminal activity
| | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 |
Aberdeen City | 8 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
Aberdeenshire | 8 | 9 | 5 | 14 |
Angus | 1 | 5 | 1 | 4 |
Argyll & Bute | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Clackmannanshire | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 5 | 14 | 1 | 8 |
Dundee City | 3 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
East Ayrshire | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
East Dunbartonshire | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
East Lothian | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 |
East Renfrewshire | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
Edinburgh, City of | 11 | 13 | 2 | 7 |
Falkirk | 4 | 8 | 3 | 4 |
Fife | 10 | 3 | 7 | 10 |
Glasgow City | 5 | 8 | 8 | 9 |
Highland | 1 | 8 | 0 | 4 |
Inverclyde | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Midlothian | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Moray | 1 | 4 | 2 | 5 |
Na h-Eileanan Siar | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
North Ayrshire | 3 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
North Lanarkshire | 3 | 4 | 4 | 3 |
Orkney Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Perth & Kinross | 5 | 4 | 4 | 1 |
Renfrewshire | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 |
Scottish Borders | 2 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
Shetland Islands | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
South Ayrshire | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
South Lanarkshire | 1 | 3 | 0 | 5 |
Stirling | 3 | 3 | 0 | 1 |
West Dunbartonshire | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 |
West Lothian | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 |
Source: Police recorded Crime Statistics: March year-end data
Table 2: Having in a school an article with a blade or point used in other criminal activity
| | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 | 2021-22 |
Aberdeen City | 2 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
Aberdeenshire | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Angus | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Argyll & Bute | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Clackmannanshire | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Dundee City | 1 | 3 | 2 | 1 |
East Ayrshire | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
East Dunbartonshire | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
East Lothian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
East Renfrewshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Edinburgh, City of | 3 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
Falkirk | 2 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Fife | 3 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
Glasgow City | 3 | 3 | 1 | 5 |
Highland | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Inverclyde | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
Midlothian | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Moray | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
Na h-Eileanan Siar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
North Ayrshire | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
North Lanarkshire | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Orkney Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Perth & Kinross | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
Renfrewshire | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
Scottish Borders | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Shetland Islands | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
South Ayrshire | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 |
South Lanarkshire | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 |
Stirling | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
West Dunbartonshire | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
West Lothian | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Source: Police recorded Crime Statistics: March year-end data
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 February 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 6 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on local authorities pursuing parents for school meal debt during a cost of living crisis, and what plans it has to prevent this.
Answer
We recognise that rises in the cost of living are putting a huge strain on some families and they are facing unforeseen challenges.
The management of debt is an issue for education authorities and their finance departments. Councils have the power to make discretionary offers of free school meals to families, where they are experiencing financial hardship due to exceptional circumstances, who do not meet the regular eligibility criteria.
COSLA, working with partners from across Local Government, have developed a set of good practice principles for the management of school meal debt, which were published on 20 February 2023. The intended audience for these principles is local authority staff across a range of departments (including education, catering, finance and debt collection) as well as Head Teachers, class teachers and other school staff. The principles can be accessed through the following link: COSLA Publish Good Practice Principles for Managing School Meal Debt - 20th February 2023 | COSLA
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 24 February 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Kevin Stewart on 6 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it will support NHS boards that have outsourced Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and other services to bring any such services back in-house.
Answer
Patient care and service delivery are the statutory responsibility of local healthcare providers. NHS Boards are responsible for working with their partners to plan and provide health services which meet the needs of their populations. Use of the independent sector has been an option open to all Health Boards to help address short-term capacity issues and is an operational decision for them.
However, through Scottish Government investment, we continue to engage and support Boards to build their workforce and implement the National CAMHS Service Specification. The Scottish Government allocated around £40 million to improve CAMHS and Neurodevelopmental services for children and young people in 2021-22, and has invested £46 million in 2022-23 via the Mental Health Outcomes Framework to improve the quality and delivery of mental health and psychological services for all. The priorities for the funding this financial year have been to continue delivering improvements in CAMHS, psychological therapies, eating disorders and neurodevelopmental services for children and young people, as well as ongoing innovation and service reform.
As a result of our investment over recent years, CAMHS staffing has increased significantly. NHS Education for Scotland (NES) publishes quarterly statistics on the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) workforce. The publication on 6 December 2022 showed, as of September 2022, the CAMHS community staff Whole Time Equivalent (WTE) was 1259 compared to 900.3 WTE in March 2021, when significant investment in CAMHS was made. This represents a 39.8% increase.
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2023
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Current Status:
Answered by Kevin Stewart on 6 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how much has been held in Integrated Joint Board (IJB) reserves in each year since IJBs were established, broken down by each IJB.
Answer
The Scottish Government receives quarterly financial reporting from IJBs which includes information on IJB reserves. The reports consolidate information already in the public domain as published by individual IJBs, and are published on the Scottish Government website. This exercise began in 2018 and no data collection was performed by the Scottish Government in respect of IJB reserves prior to this.
The reserve figures taken from the IJB reports provided have been collated in the following table. Any information regarding IJB reserves prior to 2018/19, and any additional information related to IJB reserves can be found in the IJB annual accounts published by individual IJBs.
IJB | Q4 2018-19
(£000s) | Q4 2019-20
(£000s) | Q4 2020-21
(£000s) | Q4 2021-22
(£000s) |
Aberdeen City | 5,579 | 2,602 | 15,442 | 51,393 |
Aberdeenshire | 1,405 | 117 | 20,331 | 49,060 |
Angus | 6,016 | 8,493 | 17,386 | 35,454 |
Argyll & Bute | 325 | 605 | 6,586 | 21,196 |
Clackmannanshire & Stirling | 1,977 | 1,696 | 13,875 | 28,457 |
Dumfries & Galloway | 8,426 | 2,539 | 16,757 | 30,772 |
Dundee City | 2,766 | 492 | 13,829 | 38,998 |
East Ayrshire | 2,922 | 4,965 | 15,140 | 34,169 |
East Dunbartonshire | 1,894 | 1,018 | 12,845 | - |
East Lothian | 1,782 | 2,398 | 9,608 | 20,289 |
East Renfrewshire | 5,337 | 4,606 | 10,485 | 20,752 |
Edinburgh | 9,693 | 3,166 | 25,410 | 82,156 |
Eilean Siar | 6,054 | 4,093 | 8,045 | 16,729 |
Falkirk | 6,938 | 6,588 | 18,000 | 37,917 |
Fife | - | - | 29,643 | 79,712 |
Glasgow City | 46,878 | 44,999 | 96,872 | 175,372 |
Highland | - | - | - | - |
Inverclyde | 7,281 | 8,450 | 14,932 | 28,325 |
Midlothian | 3,878 | 4,662 | 12,993 | 23,511 |
Moray | 257 | 70 | 6,342 | 17,020 |
North Ayrshire | (4,862) | (5,086) | 6,512 | 29,232 |
North Lanarkshire | 15,983 | 16,414 | 53,115 | 119,452 |
Orkney | - | 342 | 2,323 | 6,124 |
Perth & Kinross | 2,470 | 1,159 | 13,900 | 33,249 |
Renfrewshire | 5,473 | 9,517 | 27,006 | 51,050 |
Scottish Borders | - | - | 10,240 | - |
Shetland | 905 | 432 | 2,198 | 4,316 |
South Ayrshire | - | 411 | 10,205 | 28,706 |
South Lanarkshire | 11,023 | 6,162 | 37,019 | 85,278 |
West Dunbartonshire | 7,180 | 8,114 | 21,807 | 34,560 |
West Lothian | 480 | - | 9,309 | 30,080 |
Totals | 158,060 | 139,024 | 558,155 | 1,213,329 |
