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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.

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: S6W-02401

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government on which dates in 2021 meetings of the Mobilisation Recovery Group have been scheduled and subsequently cancelled.

Question reference: S6W-02404

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have attended each meeting of the Mobilisation Recovery Group.

Question reference: S6W-02400

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government who the members are of the Mobilisation Recovery Group.

The Mobilisation Recovery Group (MRG) was an advisory group established by the previous Cabinet Secretary under Re-mobilise, Recover, Re-design: the Framework for NHS Scotland.

Membership, the dates on which meetings took place, and minutes of those meetings can be found on the MRG website, available at Mobilisation Recovery Group - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) .

Minutes include a list of attendees at each meeting. The number of attendees varied depending on the meeting.

In 2021, the MRG met on 22 January, 15 February, 5 March, 26 March, and 16 April. All meetings scheduled to take place after Friday 16 April have been cancelled. Meetings were scheduled to take place on 5 June, 25 June, 16 July, 6 August, 27 August, 24 September, 15 October, 5 November, and 3 December.

The minute of the meeting held on 16 April will be published on the website shortly.

Question reference: S6W-02302

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the number of children of women who were given diethylstilbestrol (DES) in Scotland who have gone on to develop cancer.

Question reference: S6W-02301

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will establish a public inquiry into the prescribing of diethylstilbestrol (DES) to women in mother and baby homes in Scotland during the 1950s and 1960s.

Question reference: S6W-02303

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the number of women who were given diethylstilbestrol (DES) in Scotland and went on to develop cancer.

Question reference: S6W-02140

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 26 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what information is recorded by NHS boards on patients (a) loaning and (b) ineligible for short-term mobility aids.

Question reference: S6W-02139

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 August 2021
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 26 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have been provided with a short-term mobility aid since the roll-out of guidance on the provision of these earlier in 2021, broken down by health and social care partnership.

Question reference: S6O-00076

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 August 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 September 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent, and plans to spend over the next four years, on the mitigation of landslips at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83.

Question reference: S6W-01534

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 July 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 August 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what modelling or scientific advice it has regarding the estimated number of COVID-19-related (a) cases, (b) hospital admissions, (c) ICU admissions and (d) deaths there might be following the planned easing of restrictions on (i) 19 July and (ii) 9 August 2021.

Since May 2020 the Scottish Government has published 3-4 week projections of infections, hospital and ICU occupancy in its weekly publication Modelling the Epidemicin Scotland Coronavirus (COVID-19): modelling the epidemic - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) . It is published each Thursday at 5.30pm. These projections take account of the uncertainty in transmission rates, and indicate the variability as to whether infections will increase, remain level or reduce in coming weeks.

The number of new cases has been increasing over the last week. The estimate of R has increased and now spans one. Hospitalisations have been declining from a peak in mid-July, but have now levelled off. Potential future changes in hospital occupancy and intensive care use depend on both current infection levels and the impact of the relaxations of measures which will take a few weeks to become apparent.

In the publication we have not been projecting the numbers of people expected to die with Covid 19 in recent weeks. The number of daily deaths has fallen to very low levels, too low to produce accurate projections.