Chamber and committees

Table 1 shows the total number of patients seen for first treatment following referral to CAMH Services, and the number of patients seen who waited more than 18 weeks between referral and first treatment appointment in CAMH Services for each year between January 2015 and up to the latest published data for quarter ending September 2021.

The Scottish Government national standard is that 90% of children and young people should start treatment within 18 weeks of referral.

Table 1: Total number of patients seen and waiting times from referral to treatment, NHS Scotland

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Ministers agreed to move the date of Scotland’s Census from March 2021 to March 2022. This decision was taken to address significant pandemic risks to the successful completion of the census and to the delivery of the benefits required by the people of Scotland.

The impact of an extra year adds to the programme lifecycle cost, with the major financial implications of the move to 2022 being:

• The cost of extending suppliers contracts; and
• The programme’s headcount being maintained for an extra year.

National Records of Scotland (NRS) undertook significant engagement with the multiple census suppliers, with initial and final repricing exercises, interrogation of costs and an extensive resource planning exercise. This work assessed estimated additional costs of up to £21.6m for the delivery of Scotland’s Census in 2022 across the remaining lifecycle of the programme.

NRS continues to deliver against the revised plan with arrangements for Scotland’s Census 2022 well advanced.

Since 25 January 2019 until 13 October 2021, the period covered by S6W-03688, there have been 19 fixed penalty notices unpaid, compared to 93 paid.

This makes a payment rate over the period of 83%.

The breakdown is as follows:

(a) 7 of the 19 cases were referred to the COPFS for consideration of prosecution; and

(b) 3 of these cases resulted in convictions and fines with the breakdown as follows:

As previously set out, we are working with industry, local government and environmental groups to develop a route map to deliver our waste and recycling targets for 2025. This work will be critical in determining how the waste and resources sector, including local government, will contribute towards lower carbon emissions in the period to 2030 and beyond, including the approach to evaluating progress against our goal to reduce emissions.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-04763 on 14 December 2021. 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 .

It is anticipated that there will be no change and that ScotRail Trains Limited will continue to publish the same information on operational performance as is currently published by Abellio ScotRail.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-04716 on 13 December 2021. 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

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-04716 on 13 December 2021. 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 Abellio ScotRail franchise agreement, currently in place (which has been temporarily varied by Emergency Measures Agreements), will be replaced by a Grant Agreement which will take effect from 1 April 2022, when ScotRail Trains Limited will take over the operation of ScotRail passenger services in Scotland.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-04763 on 14 December 2021. 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 .