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The number of hip and knee operations reached an all-time high in 2024. Mr Whittle asks me when I will take action, and I say to him that I am taking action.
For example, 2,700 households with children have been assisted into affordable housing since December 2024. That is part of the work that the Government has been doing in our delivery of 139,000 homes, including 99,000 for social rent, since 2007.
That is why we are determined to increase the number of GPs by 800 by 2027, with an additional 360 GPs having been added since 2017. As of 11 November 2024, the GP specialty training establishment in Scotland stands at just over 1,200 places, which is a record level.
Through our cross-policy working on the “New Scots Refugee Integration Strategy Delivery Plan 2024-26”, we are taking account of intersectional approaches to gender equality, including engaging new Scots in the delivery of Scotland’s equally safe strategy and the wider work on violence against women and girls to ensure that the needs of new Scots are addres...
Based on the data for the first nine months of 2024, Scots have had to pay an estimated £17.6 million of their own money on cataract treatment, £30.8 million of their own money on hip replacements and an estimated £16 million of their own money on knee replacements.
(S6F-03527) The latest data shows that advertised average rents have increased in Scotland by 7.8 per cent in the 12 months to September 2024. It is in that context that we set out our plans for a rent cap of consumer prices index plus 1 per cent up to a maximum of 6 per cent to apply where rent control areas are in force.
We have invested £11.3 million in cancer waiting times funding in 2024-25, and that funding is directed towards our most challenged tumour types, including breast cancer.
Well, all of that has now gone out the window. In 2024-25, the Scottish Government will invest more than £1 billion in the rural affairs, land reform and islands budget.
Mr Sarwar has challenged me on the Government’s record, and he has talked about facts, so allow me to share some facts with the Parliament. Between 2007 and 2024, the Government has been responsible for the construction of an average of 7,750 affordable homes each year.
Programme for Government (Arts and Culture) To ask the Scottish Government whether it has had any discussions with organisations in the arts and culture sector since the publication of “Programme for Government 2024-25”. (S6O-03718) I note my entry in the register of members’ interests as a supporter of the arts.