Chamber and committees

The options available will depend on the individual’s specific circumstances and could include a complaint to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, a complaint to the relevant police force, or a civil court action.

The Scottish Government does not hold this information.

 

The Scottish Government has received and replied to a number of enquiries around the issues under consideration by the Pitchford Inquiry.

 

Information on the Healthcare Science clinical group, which these staff work within, is not held by ISD Scotland at this level of detail.

However, the latest published ISD Scotland statistics show that the overall number of Healthcare Science staff in NHSScotland has increased by 51.2 per cent under this Government, to 5,458.1 Whole Time Equivalent.

Further information on the latest published Healthcare Science staff in post figures, can be found in the data tables of the Workforce Statistics website at:-

https://www.isdscotland.org/Health-Topics/Workforce/Publications/2016-06-07/HCS_Staff_M2016.xls

The Scottish Government welcomes the publication of the draft Authorised Professional Practice (APP), which is currently out to consultation, on undercover policing. This has been produced by the College of Policing. Police Scotland is working towards full adoption of the final guidance contained in the APP.

As set out in Scotland’s Economic Strategy, the Scottish Government believes that changes to corporation tax should focus on creating a long-term competitive advantage by using targeted changes in tax allowances to encourage higher levels of investment in capital or research and development and encourage the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises, not through a blanket approach to further reducing the headline rate.

The economic impact of a reduction in corporation tax to 15%, as proposed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, would depend on the timeframe over which it was implemented, the manner in which it is funded and any accompany reforms. To date, the UK Government has not provided this information

The award of a contract to Kier Construction to rebuild the Glasgow School of Art’s Mackintosh building is a matter for The Glasgow School of Art.

Despite employment law being a reserved matter, the Scottish Government has gone further than any other part of the UK to help eradicate blacklisting from public contracts. Statutory guidance concerning blacklisting has been published, the Public Contracts (Scotland) Regulations 2015 and the Procurement (Scotland) Regulations 2016, which came into effect on 18 April 2016, contain provisions to ensure that companies that have, by admission or being established by judicial decision, breached the Employment Relations Act 1999 (Blacklist) Regulations 2010 be excluded from bidding for public contracts.

This exclusion ground applies until a period of three years has elapsed or such time as the company has taken appropriate remedial measures, whatever comes first. It is for individual authorities to assess, given all the circumstance of the contract, whether any remedial measures taken by the company are sufficient to allow them to bid for the contract.

Funding arrangements will be determined as part of wider discussions on Scotland's membership of the EU in the light of the outcome of the Referendum.

We welcome the contribution EU students make to our society, culture and economy. EU students add to the diversity of our communities, enrich the learning experience and support local businesses and jobs.

We moved swiftly to reassure students that there has been no change to the current funding arrangements. Eligible EU students already studying in Scotland or commencing their studies in the coming academic year, will continue to benefit from free tuition for the duration of their course.

The following table shows the number of women undergoing partial or total removal of mesh previously inserted for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) in Scotland by health board of treatment for financial years 2006-07 to 2015-16.

Information regarding the removal of mesh used surgically to treat pelvic organ prolapse is not available as currently there are no specific codes used to record these procedures in routine hospital discharge records. NHSScotland’s information services division has asked the health and social care information centre in England, which maintains the coding system, to create new codes for these procedures.

Health board of treatment	Number of women undergoing treatment for partial or total removal of mesh previously inserted for treatment of SUI
Ayrshire and Arran	33
Borders	26
Dumfries and Galloway	8
Fife	27
Forth Valley	33
Grampian	35
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	236
Highland	40
Lanarkshire	29
Lothian	125
Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles	*
Tayside	27
Non-NHS provider	*
Total	625

* Indicates values that have been suppressed due to the potential risk of disclosure and to help maintain patient confidentiality.

The following table shows the number of women undergoing transvaginal mesh surgery for stress urinary incontinence (SUI) and pelvic organ prolapse (POP) in Scotland by health board of treatment for financial years 2006-07 to 2015-16.

Health Board of treatment	Number of women who have undergone a mesh procedure for SUI	Number of women who have undergone a mesh procedure for POP	Number of women who have undergone any mesh procedure for SUI or POP
Ayrshire and Arran	805	535	1,279
Borders	817	9	825
Dumfries and Galloway	380	32	409
Fife	982	116	1,087
Forth Valley	857	17	872
Grampian	1,088	327	1,367
Greater Glasgow and Clyde	3,591	773	4,240
Highland	661	18	678
Lanarkshire	545	62	604
Lothian	1,906	19	1,921
Orkney, Shetland and Western Isles	56	*	58
Tayside	764	131	893
Non-NHS provider	64	*	98
Total	12,516	2,079	14,331

The total for SUI and POP procedures should not add up as women could have had one or more procedures.

* Indicates values that have been suppressed due to the potential risk of disclosure and to help maintain patient confidentiality.

There are no specific codes to identify the type of mesh used therefore numbers may include biological grafts as well as polypropylene mesh.

Only transvaginal procedures have been included. mesh procedures for POP involving an abdominal approach such as sacrohysteropexy and sacrocolpopexy have been excluded.