- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 January 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 29 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how many and (b) what percentage of (i) care home residents, (ii) care home staff, (iii) NHS staff, (iv) social care staff and (v) people over 80 have been given a COVID-19 vaccination each week.
Answer
As of 23 December Public Health Scotland are publishing weekly vaccination statistics on their website. As further vaccination data becomes available, PHS will consider expanding their reporting in line with this.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 January 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 29 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether pharmacies will be involved in the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine.
Answer
Yes, Community Pharmacists and members of the pharmacy team can be involved in the roll-out of the COVID-19 vaccine.
The community pharmacy network across Scotland continue to play a key role in the NHS response to the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is vital that they ensure that that patients continue to have their medicines safely dispensed and providing accessible healthcare advice through the NHS Pharmacy First Scotland service.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 January 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 29 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many registered COVID-19 vaccinators there are in each NHS board area.
Answer
Registered Vaccinators (Headcount), Vaccination Management Tool (VMT) |
Health Board | 22-Jan-21 |
NHS Ayrshire and Arran | 237 |
NHS Borders | 189 |
NHS Dumfries and Galloway | 412 |
NHS Education for Scotland | 2 |
NHS Fife | 206 |
NHS Forth Valley | 372 |
NHS Grampian | 1514 |
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde | 1527 |
NHS Highland | 607 |
NHS Lanarkshire | 922 |
NHS Lothian | 946 |
NHS Orkney | 57 |
NHS Shetland | 52 |
NHS Tayside | 912 |
NHS Western Isles | 86 |
Scottish Ambulance Service | 269 |
The Golden Jubilee Hospital | 22 |
The State Hospital | 7 |
Territorial Boards Total | 8039 |
Special Boards* Total | 300 |
Grand Total | 8339 |
This figure represents the number of staff that have completed all mandatory training components, and are registered on the vaccination management tool, by Health Board Area. It does not, however, include all GPs participating in the programme, many of whom are using local systems to record vaccinations.
Data from the VMT is management information, and is subject to change.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 29 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that staff at Ferguson Marine were allowed to arrive at the shipyard immediately after getting off an overseas flight at Edinburgh Airport and were not made to self-isolate, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer
Fergusons pipe-fitting subcontractor, HB Hydraulics, which operates a subcontractor office on-site at the shipyard, recruited additional workers to handle the growing volume of its work on the dual fuel ferries. Without the prior knowledge or agreement of Fergusons management, a group of their workers arrived at the shipyard to collect accommodation details.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 January 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Kate Forbes on 29 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much Financial Transactions money it has received from the UK Government in each year since 2010, broken down by where it has been deployed.
Answer
The information requested is set out in the tables that follow. Due to a number of factors such as the repayments of earlier loans which allowed funds to be recycled, the figures for the Financial Transactions received and those disbursed, by year, do not reconcile.
Financial Transactions Consequentials Received | | | | | | | | | |
| 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | 2020-21 |
| £m | £m | £m | £m | £m | £m | £m | £m | £m |
Total Received Annually | 35.3 | 139.4 | 187.2 | 385.0 | 328.6 | 445.1 | 400.9 | 344.1 | 612.2 |
Cumulative Total | 35.3 | 174.7 | 361.9 | 746.8 | 1,075.4 | 1,520.5 | 1,921.5 | 2,265.6 | 2,877.8 |
Note: There were no Financial Transactions received in 2010 and 2011
Financial Transactions Disbursed | | | | | | | | | |
| 2012-13 | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 | 2016-17 | 2017-18 | 2018-19 | 2019-20 | TOTAL |
| £m | £m | £m | £m | £m | £m | £m | £m | £m |
Help to Buy | | 32.9 | 144.1 | 136.7 | 64.1 | 58.0 | 60.4 | 53.6 | 549.8 |
Shared Equity/First Home Fund | 29.4 | 45.7 | 42.5 | 59.8 | 72.7 | 72.5 | 79.0 | 61.3 | 462.9 |
Help to Adapt | | | | | | 0.4 | | | 0.4 |
Charitable Bond | | 10.0 | 2.0 | 25.7 | 32.3 | 24.7 | 37.9 | 88.2 | 220.8 |
Other Housing and Regeneration | 3.8 | 18.0 | 7.1 | 12.8 | 49.8 | 36.1 | 46.9 | 48.8 | 223.3 |
Enterprise Investment | | | 1.5 | 54.8 | | 34.5 | 40.2 | 86.1 | 217.1 |
Carbon Reduction and Energy Efficiency Schemes | 2.1 | 2.2 | 3.4 | 6.1 | 11.0 | 11.3 | 1.5 | 12.6 | 50.2 |
Hub Investments | | | 4.0 | 5.4 | 2.3 | 0.7 | 1.4 | | 13.8 |
Rural Loans | | | | 53.6 | 370.2 | 368.5 | 425.3 | 382.5 | 1,600.1 |
Culture Loans | | | | 6.0 | 4.0 | | | | 10.0 |
Other Loans | | | | | | 57.7 | 133.4 | 134.0 | 325.1 |
TOTAL | 35.3 | 108.8 | 204.6 | 360.9 | 606.4 | 664.4 | 826.0 | 867.2 | 3,673.6 |
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 January 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 29 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has encouraged former NHS staff that can give COVID-19 vaccinations to return to the workforce and, if so, how many have been recruited.
Answer
The Scottish Government has welcomed support from former NHS staff who have offered to assist in the delivery of the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme. Individuals can offer their support at: Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on offering support - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) .
In October we shared information with Health Boards from nurses, registered on our Accelerated Recruitment Portal, who expressed an interest in supporting the COVID-19 Vaccination Programme. We have provided 188 prospective vaccinators to Health Boards through this route.
We have also written to regulatory bodies (HCPC, GPhC, GMC and NMC), to help connect temporary registrants with their local Health Boards in order that they may register an interest in returning to support the delivery of healthcare services.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 08 January 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Jeane Freeman on 29 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is recruiting retired health service staff to help with the administration of the COVID-19 vaccination programme.
Answer
Information for individuals that want to offer their support to the vaccination programme is available at: Coronavirus (COVID-19): guidance on offering support - gov.scot (www.gov.scot) .
Publication of the National Protocols for COVID-19 Vaccines on 21st January, authorises and enables retired unregistered and returning staff to administer COVID-19 vaccinations. These individuals can now apply for specific vaccinator roles advertised on the NHS Scotland Recruitment website, with applications routed directly to local Health Boards.
We have engaged with Health Boards regarding those individuals who have intimated an interest in re-entering the health and social care workforce via our Accelerated Recruitment Portal (ARP). We have provided 188 prospective vaccinators to Boards through this route.
In addition, we have already provided all NHS Scotland boards with access to the GMC and NMC emergency registers of qualified healthcare workers. We are writing to regulators to signpost our guidance for onward dissemination to registrants interested in a role within the programme.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 28 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that social distancing measures are not being followed at Ferguson Marine shipyard, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer
Ferguson Marine has always complied with Scottish Government guidelines on Covid-19 and has worked closely with trades unions to make sure there are robust measures in place, and these have limited in-yard transmission to a single case since work at the yard restarted in June 2020.
Separately, management suspended production at the yard to undertake a full review of the Covid-19 prevention measures in place and to reconfigure the workplace amenities/canteen to comply with revised social distancing requirements. Both Scottish Government and Fergusons management remain fully committed to ensuring that Fergusons continues to provide the safest possible working environment for its people.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 January 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 28 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many staff at Ferguson Marine have their main domicile outwith the UK.
Answer
Ferguson Marine has no staff who have their main domicile outwith the UK.
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 18 January 2021
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Current Status:
Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 27 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of Financial Transactions money has been deployed to the Scottish National Investment Bank since its inception.
Answer
Initial capitalisation is through Financial Transactions, this includes budget of £490 million for precursor investment allocated between 2018-21 which includes £220m in this year’s budget. The Bank’s first investment is £12.5m in M Squared Lasers and more information is available here, https://www.thebank.scot/media-centre/first-minister-launches-scottish-national-investment-bank/ .
Decisions about the precise mix and source of capital that will deliver the full £2 billion for the Bank will be made in light of future budget settlements and other calls on the Scottish Government’s capital programme.