The Scottish Government has supported Neighbourhood Watch Scotland (NWS) since it was established in 2008. Over this period, the Scottish Government has provided funding of £870,877.

The Scottish Government continues to work closely with Neighbourhood Watch Scotland to offer reassurance to local communities and advice on keeping safe. It has also supported NWS in the establishment of Rural Watch Scotland and the development of the Neighbourhood ALERT system, which provides real time community messaging and shares alerts on potential criminal activities.

All GP practices have secure broadband connections to Scotland Wide Area Network. The speed of their broadband connections varies. The older ADSL broadband connection is provided over home telephone lines and the newer Fibre to the Cabinet (FTTC) technology provides a fibre optic connection, much closer to the premises, to provide faster download and upload speeds

The majority of GP sites already have FTTC connections. There is a programme of work to move GP sites still using ADSL technology to FTTC technology. Since October 2016, the programme has improved the secure internet connections for 529 GP practices and branch surgeries. There are 73 GP sites that are still using ADSL connections. Out of these 73 sites, 20 are already on order with BT to be upgraded to FTTC.

It is estimated that by the end of this financial year (2018-19) only 34 sites will remain on ADSL connections. The successful completion of this project depends on the full roll-out of the Scottish Government’s “Reaching 100” project which aims to connect all of Scotland to super-fast broadband by the end of 2021.”

There remains a clinical imperative to ensure that any issues are fully resolved before NHS Lothian take ownership of the new Edinburgh Children’s Hospital. NHS Lothian is working closely with the Project Company to resolve any issues and confirm a revised handover date. Discussion continues to agree level and apportioning of any additional costs.

High quality clinical services continue to be delivered at the existing Royal Hospital for Sick Children and our priority remains maintaining the highest levels of patient care.

This information is not held centrally. ISD publish information on the last six months of life and the percentage of time spent at home, in a community setting or in hospital.

The specific information requested is not held centrally.

From the start of 2017-18 crimes of this nature would be recorded by police as ‘Culpable and reckless conduct involving aircraft’. There were 39 such crimes recorded in 2017-18 however this covers several contraventions of the Air Navigation Order 2016 – including sections 225 (Lights which dazzle or distract), 240 (Endangering safety of an aircraft) and 241 (Endangering safety of any person or property).

Information on those proceeded against under section 225 (Lights which dazzle or distract) of the Air Navigation Order 2016 will be available following the publication of the 2017-18 Criminal Proceedings in Scotland National Statistics, due to be published in January 2018.

The information is not held centrally by the Scottish Government. The data is partially available from NHS Education for Scotland (NES) from 2014 onwards.

The number of trainees in practices has increased annually from 2014-2018. The following table shows the number of trainees in GP practices from 2014-2018 which includes trainees in year one of specialty training and also in year 3. Each trainee will spend 6 months in a practice during Specialty Training level 1 (ST1) and 12 months during ST3.

In order to take on trainees, a GP practice must have a trained Educational Supervisor and the practice must itself be approved for training following a visit by a team from the NES Deanery.

Number of trainees in GP practices (ST1 and ST3)

The information on the number of doctors registered and licenced but not practising in Scotland is not held centrally by the Scottish Government and therefore cannot be assessed in detail.

Data provided by the GMC as at 5 December 2018 shows that the number of doctors who have declared they are not practising in Scotland is 68, 0.33% of all doctors registered with a licence to practice.

Fully registered and licensed doctors are subject to Revalidation and will have a connection to a Designated Body or will inform the GMC that they do not hold a connection and therefore GMC determine how these doctors will revalidate. 309 doctors have not yet confirmed their connection to a Designated Body for revalidation and therefore it is unknown whether they are practising.

Availability is checked using the Superfast Broadband checker set-up by Digital Scotland. Speeds are checked as part of the broadband delivery process.

The Scottish Government does not hold the information requested. NHS Boards commission specialist services for palliative care in the community and pharmacists from various settings including community, hospital and managed service, may have a role in local arrangements.

The following table highlights data from Higher Education Statistics Agency HESA records, from the Scottish Funding Council, showing Scotland-domiciled people who have entered pre-registration nursing and midwifery training since 2008-2009 to 2016-17.