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Date answered:
23 December 2025
S6W-42524
As I set out in my letter to the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee on 16 December, official engagement is ongoing between the Scottish and UK Governments to resolve outstanding legislative competence issues within the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill.This includes considering provisions in the Bill around employment protections for people who opt not to be involved in assisted dying, which may relate to the reserved matter of employment and industrial relations (section H1 of schedule 5 of the Scotland Act 1998).No correspondence or communication has taken place with regard to the impact this may have on Scotland’s economy.A link to the 16 December letter is available here: https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/committees/current-and-previous-committees/session-6-health-social-care-and-sport-committee/correspondence/2025/ad-bill-cab-sec-hsc-section-30. S6W...
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Date answered:
22 December 2025
S6W-42443
Due to small patient numbers it is challenging to produce detailed, anonymised data.To protect confidentiality, cancer groups with fewer than 50 responses cannot be analysed, as this helps minimise the risk of individuals being identifiable within the dataset.The MCN CYPC have a number of support programmes including the National Youth Advisory Forum and Buddy Support Network, which enable young people to share experiences, identify gaps, and help improve service quality through feedback. S6W...
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Date answered:
17 December 2025
S6W-42399
This is a Scottish strength and makes the new National Advanced Semiconductor Packaging and Integration Centre (NASPIC) under NMIS more important and valuable.The global semiconductor market has long been vulnerable to market fluctuations and we believe there is much the UK Government can do to strengthen national supply chain sovereignty, particularly on energy costs and greater capital investment in semiconductor fabs. S6W...
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Date answered:
16 December 2025
S6W-42230
Guidance on the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007, The Adoption Agencies (Scotland) Regulations 2009 and The Looked-After Children (Scotland) Regulations 2009 recommends permanence planning to begin promptly when a child becomes looked after to support timely and stable permanence arrangements.Scotland’s Adoption Register also facilitates matching across local authorities by providing a national system to link approved adopters with children from any local authority in Scotland.To promote consistent and effective practice in permanence, the Scottish Government has commissioned the Association for Fostering, Kinship and Adoption Scotland to develop three national good practice guides on permanence in kinship care, foster care and adoption, which will be available in early 2026.Together, these measures provide a national framework intended to promote consistency and improve coordination for children moving from foster care to adoption. S6W...
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Date answered:
16 December 2025
S6W-42418
Analysis of related data collected for Looked After Children Statistics is included in the following table.Year1Total number of looked after children2, 3:returned under Section 25 of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007, orwhere adoption did not proceed under Section 26 of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007Total number of looked after children adopted2021-22102112022-23112372023-2471821 Year refers to the 12-month period ending on 31 July.2 Total number of looked after children refers to the number of looked after children either returned to the local authority under Section 25 of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007, or where adoption did not proceed, under Section 26 of the Adoption and Children (Scotland) Act 2007, during each year.3 An adoption order was not issued for children counted in these figures, which have therefore not been shown as a percentage of all adoptions, where an adoption order was issued. S6W...
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Date answered:
16 December 2025
S6W-42397
However, this does not mean that we should directly copy the May oral model from England. S6W-42397
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Date answered:
16 December 2025
S6W-42350
Where overflow events are confirmed to be occurring in dry weather because of insufficient capacity in the sewerage system, a process is being developed whereby these will be identified as Unsatisfactory Intermittent Discharges (UIDs) and will be agreed with SEPA as a priority for improvement." S6W-42350
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Date answered:
11 December 2025
S6W-42296
This includes meeting the requirements of the Health & Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019 and ensuring appropriate staffing levels across services to enable safe, high-quality care and better outcomes for service users.The wellbeing of our health, social work and care workforce remains a central priority during the winter period. S6W-42296
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Date answered:
11 December 2025
S6W-42496
The construction of the new plant at Grangemouth is being made possible as a direct result of up to £3 million in grant funding being allocated by the Scottish and UK Governments, with £1.5 million coming from the Scottish Government’s Grangemouth Just Transition Fund.Subject to final negotiations and confirmation of public funding conditions, we are also allocating up to £6.23 million from the Grangemouth Just Transition Fund to Celtic Renewables to support pre-construction costs associated with its at scale ABE bio-refinery project at Grangemouth.A further additional £595,000 from the Fund to be utilised by Scottish Enterprise to progress essential enabling activities that will make progress towards Grangemouth’s transition.I look forward to providing a fuller update to Parliament later today on the progress being made by this Government to support Grangemouth’s Just Transition to Net Zero. S6W...
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Date answered:
10 December 2025
S6W-42224
This will focus on building delivery capacity, assessing and addressing AI-related skills requirements, and strengthening Scotland’s AI talent pipeline to facilitate workforce reskilling and adaptation as AI technologies reshape employment and the wider economy. S6W-42224
