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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 ��˿�� to get factual and statistical information.

Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S5W-02516

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how much has been spent on incinerating hospital clinical waste in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S5W-02522

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many MS nurses there are in each NHS board area.

NHS Board	Number of MS specialists (WTE)
NHS Scotland	15.0
NHS Ayrshire & Arran	1.0
NHS Borders	0.6
NHS Dumfries and Galloway	-
NHS Fife	1.4
NHS Forth Valley	1.0
NHS Grampian	1.9
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde	3.0
NHS Highland	2.0
NHS Lanarkshire	-
NHS Lothian	2.0
NHS Orkney	0.6
NHS Shetland	0.5
NHS Tayside	-
NHS Western Isles	1.0

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Question reference: S5W-02513

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many places on integrated health boards are still to be appointed.

Appointments to Integration Joint Boards (IJBs) were confirmed following their legal constitution in line with the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Integration Joint Board) (Scotland) Order 2014, which sets out minimum membership requirements of IJBs. As with any board of governance, an interim vacancy may arise from time to time due to a member stepping down or an appointment term coming to an end.

Question reference: S5W-02515

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many terminally-ill people in each year since 1999 who expressed a preference to die at home, died in a hospital setting.

Question reference: S5W-02509

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 22 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how much it provides to support young carers, and how this compares with 2007.

Most funding provided by the Scottish Government is to support both adult and young carers and is not separated out. Between 2008 and 2017 we invested nearly £39 million in Health Boards' Carer Information Strategies for support to adult and young carers.

Since 2012 we have also invested over £300,000 in workforce development which includes programmes working with young carers.

For young carer specific support, the Scottish Government has provided over £2 million for the annual Young Carers Festival, and for other initiatives. We also fund the Scottish Young Carers Services Alliance to support the development of services for young carers.

The total amount for supporting carers in 2007 is likely to be less than in any year from 2008, as the existing initiatives were not in place then.

Question reference: S5W-02521

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 22 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time was for patients to see a chiropractor in each year since 1999, also broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S5W-02514

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 22 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how many complaints the NHS has received regarding over-intervention in patient treatment.

Question reference: S5W-02146

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 August 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how the £5 million in its cancer strategy to improve waiting times performance will be used to tackle reports of people with metastatic kidney cancer experiencing clinically significant delays between diagnosis and the beginning of treatment.

Question reference: S5W-02147

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 August 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how it will assess the impact of its cancer strategy on people with kidney cancer and, if it concludes that there has not been a significant improvement in outcomes, whether it will introduce further measures.

Question reference: S5W-02145

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 August 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government how its cancer strategy will tackle the incidence of kidney cancer.

Our ‘Beating Cancer: Ambition and Action’ strategy and the accompanying £100 million investment over 5 years, serves as a blueprint for the future of cancer services in Scotland, improving the prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment and aftercare of people affected by all cancers. This work links with our tobacco control strategy and the Prevention of Obesity Route Map as we know that smoking and obesity are two of the biggest risk factors for renal cancer.