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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.

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Question reference: S6W-18719

Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 12 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Emma Roddick on 22 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it is conducting any equalities, human rights or children's rights assessments, in respect of any impact in Scotland of the UK Government’s Illegal Migration Bill.

This Bill will disproportionately impact vulnerable groups including victims of trafficking, children and LGBTQIA+ people. It is regrettable that the Home Office did not publish an Equality Impact Assessment for the Bill until the 10 May, by which point it had already passed through the House of Commons, consequently restricting the ability of those involved to scrutinise this Bill to the full extent of their powers.

The Joint Committee on Human Rights published a report on the Illegal Migration Bill last week in which it said certain provisions were incompatible with the UK’s legal obligations under international law, including the European Convention on Human Rights. The Home Secretary herself, was unable to make a statement that provisions of the Bill are compatible when it was introduced. The implications of the bill as it applies to Scotland are being assessed in the context of the requirement for legislative consent and were also considered by Parliament when the bill was debated in April. The requirement to carry out and publish any impact assessments belongs with the UK Government.

Question reference: S6W-19029

Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Monday, 12 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 22 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to hold a consultation on co-operatives, and, if this is the case, what the proposed timetable is.

Question reference: S6W-19111

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Elena Whitham on 22 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have accessed alcohol treatment services in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.

Data on the number of people accessing alcohol treatment services in Scotland is available from Public Health Scotland’s “National Drug and Alcohol Treatment Waiting Times” series of reports. It includes specific figures on the number of service users who have completed a wait to commence specialist alcohol treatment.

It is published by Public Health Scotland and covers the period from 01 April 2011 onwards as earlier data is not available.

The reports covering the period from April 2011 to September 2019 can be found via the URL link below:

https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Drugs-and-Alcohol-Misuse/Publications/ .

The reports covering the period from October 2019 to December 2022 can be found via the URL link below:

https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Drugs-and-Alcohol-Misuse/Publications/

Although the data is publicly available online, in order to answer the above question, it is necessary to combine extracts from multiple reports. Results have been presented in Table 1. Not all necessary data, however, is available to answer the question fully, which explains blank boxes in the table.

Table 1. Number of service users who have completed a wait to commence specialist alcohol treatment

Board	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22
NHSScotland	27595	28467	32556	31627	30373	29450	28061	26895	22725	19605	19617
Ayrshire & Arran			1777	1568	1451	1353	1419	1359	1439	1146	1546
Borders			431	399	381	387	298	312	283	278	310
Dumfries & Galloway			922	882	916	795	858	693	745	738	918
Fife			1635	1539	1604	1540	1375	1330	1448	1088	1092
Forth Valley			1491	1423	1746	1425	1346	987	893	797	773
Grampian			1761	1544	1616	1746	1477	1396	1455	1026	1214
Greater Glasgow & Clyde			11895	11905	11027	11095	10648	10482	6622	5598	4901
Highland			1531	1564	1315	1332	1131	1134	1059	869	735
Lanarkshire			5727	6192	5475	5174	5159	5393	5062	4751	4789
Lothian			3303	2964	3000	2960	2995	2544	2565	2154	2303
Orkney			54	36	34	30	41	24	29	35	23
Shetland			73	55	79	41	62	46	53	31	54
Tayside			1651	1336	1482	1380	1110	970	945	995	912
Western Isles			305	220	247	192	142	201	127	99	47

Question reference: S6W-19123

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 22 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government how many reports of animals being hit by vehicles Police Scotland has received in each year for which data is available.

The following table shows the number of a nimals involved in injury collisions that were hit in the carriageway.

Animals involved in injury road collisions that were hit in the carriageway

	Animal excluding ridden horse	Ridden horse	Total
1999	Not available	5	5
2000	Not available	3	3
2001	Not available	3	3
2002	Not available	5	5
2003	Not available	3	4
2004	Not available	1	4
2005	47	3	50
2006	53	3	56
2007	45	2	47
2008	54	4	58
2009	46	3	49
2010	38	3	41
2011	41	2	43
2012	43	4	47
2013	38	0	38
2014	26	1	27
2015	33	3	36
2016	39	0	39
2017	24	0	24
2018	20	1	21
2019	20	2	22
2020	22	1	23
2021	8	1	9
2022	14	0	14

Question reference: S6W-19114

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 22 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish its new strategy for palliative care.

Question reference: S6W-19124

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2023
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 22 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what data it has on how many animals that have been hit by vehicles have been reported to a vet, in each year for which data is available.

Question reference: S6O-02448

Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 June 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what action it is taking to tackle antisocial behaviour on public transport.

Question reference: S6O-02451

Asked by: Kevin Stewart, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 June 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to mitigate the impact of the cost of living crisis on people across Scotland.

Question reference: S6O-02454

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 June 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government when it last spoke to the SFA about its efforts to make elite men’s football in Scotland as accessible as possible to everyone, specifically children from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Question reference: S6O-02452

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 June 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what post-diagnostic clinical support is available for autistic children and young people.