 Y rwyfyrnodd i'r wybodaeth gwneud oesiedig deaml wrth Fyrtariaeth Fyrtariaeth i ôl biri oedd ein bwysig, ond mae'n sandbwynt o feddwl i'ch gwerthfyrdd yma i ddweud o gael cyfraffwyr o ddweud o gael cyfraffwyr cofyddion cyfanolau sydd yn fawr o ddechrau symud sy'n bwysig i Orkney a Shetland. Éf NHS Orkney a LBCHL yn cyd-dweud o ddechrau pam i ddechrau gyda unrhyw o ddweud Anolion aeth aethau aethau sydd gyfle i gweithio addysg o casg ac yn cerddol aethau cyrraedd. Onw'n gweithio eich gweithio aethau am hir oedd edrych o'r newidahol a unig gael ei wneud aethau aethau cymonedau gwineillol aethau gyflaenol yn gweld â'r gweld. Rwyfeth ei wneud ond, yn gweithio yn cael £38,000 o casd aethau ynghylch, aethau o casd aethau'r ornodau, os ymddir i ddefnyddio ar yr subscribers aethau ynghylch o casgrwyffydd i'r neighbours ymweld aethau. Moritodd. Moritodd. I thank the minister for that answer. Having met with Orkney rape crisis earlier this year, I know how crucial this service is and I welcome the fact that the funding has helped them to employ two new part-time staff who started work this month. Folk in Orkney and Shetland first highlighted that victims of sexual crimes have to travel to the Scottish mainland by police escort without a wash for examination. Can the minister provide more information of the practical support to be made available, please? The key element of improving provision in Orkney and Shetland and, indeed, across Scotland is making sure that we have sufficient doctors to carry out forensic medical examinations and we are providing an additional £76,000 to NHS Education Scotland to redesign the current training model to make this more accessible to doctors, aiming in fact for an extra 50 doctors to be trained by March 2018. We are delighted that both Orkney and Shetland health boards will be part of the revised training approach that will release key staff to pilot the new remote training course. We expect that lessons learned from the pilot will inform the future training model across the whole of Scotland, ensuring a greater consistency in the approach in delivering these important services. Liam McArthur. I thank the minister for her response, but I also put on record my thanks to the cabinet secretary for the work that he has done to have a Scot myself alongside local stakeholders and the local health boards to ensure that services do better meet the needs of island survivors of rape and sexual assault. What assurance has the Government received that Orkney rape crisis and women's aid will be included in planning of the forensic service around referral pathways and survivor feedback? What steps are being taken to look at the delivery of services for child victims whose needs are very specific and the response that is needed has to be tailored? Yes, on the first point that the member raises, I know that he has pursued this issue long and hard and with some degree of success thus far, and we are continuing to make progress. On the issue of involvement, we would be happy to hear views and I am sure that officials would be happy to meet with representatives of the organisations that he referred to. On the issue of children and the examinations that may sadly be required to be carried out, it would be important to say to the member that examinations required to be carried out as far as children are concerned with a pediatrician and a forensic examiner present. Although there are different practices across the country at the present time, recent managed clinical networks, standards of service provision and quality indicators for the pediatric medical component of child protection services in Scotland state that that is the standard to adhere to. There may also be additional factors in a case involving a child witness, such as requirements to remove perhaps the child from immediate danger and other complementary medical professions that may be needed in that case. I can assure the member that we are considering this from a national point of view as to how we can improve the experience of children through the justice system. We are looking, I think, at the cabinet secretary alluded to this the other day in the chamber at the Nordic model of Barnahouse. That will inform any national position that we take and, of course, how that might be supported, in particular in remote and island communities. I am absolutely sure that the member will have further input that he wishes to make, and that will be very happily and gratefully received. Mark Griffin To ask the Scottish Government what partnership action for continuing employment has taken in Lanarkshire in the last year. Minister Paul Wheelhouse For September 2016, until August 2017, our partnership action for continuing employment or PACE initiative has provided skills deployment, development and employability support to 1,080 individuals and 31 employers based in Lanarkshire. Support has included PACE presentations on-site, information on benefits, workshops and CV preparation, interview skills, job searching and one-to-one sessions on career management. Mark Griffin I thank the minister for that answer. Beyond the work carried out by PACE, can I ask the minister if it is still government policy to relocate civil service jobs and the agencies outside of Edinburgh and if the Government has considered doing so for any of the new agencies, the Social Security Agency, Revenue Scotland, to compensate for the potential impact of HMRC closures in communities in Lanarkshire? Mark Griffin Sorry, Presiding Officer. The member raises an interesting point. Clearly, the Scottish Government has demonstrated a record in the past of moving jobs outside of Edinburgh to locations such as the border, so I know that the public pension agency is based. Jeane Freeman is involved with Angela Constance looking at the possibilities of establishing a new social security workforce in Scotland. I would leave it to the member to engage with my fellow ministers on that issue but, in terms of the wider point, we are clearly looking at how the Government can support economic growth, inclusive growth across the country. I am very aware of the significant potential impact that HMRC job losses in Cumbernauld and Lanarkshire, more generally, may have on the Lanarkshire economy. I welcome the fact that, after some discussion, particularly from Collie Jamie Hepburn and Stuart MacDonald MP, the Council of North Lanarkshire Council is taking forward an economic impact study for the area in which we are very keen to see the results of that. I apologise to the member if he is being involved as well, but I am keen to see the evidence of that and the Government will obviously study the results of that very closely. To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made in delivering town centre status for underdeveloped areas such as Drumchapel and Glasgow. A local town centre has been designated in Drumchapel within Glasgow city development plan, which was adopted earlier this year. With regard to other areas that we have set out in Scottish planning policy, planning authorities should identify in their development plans the status of a particular area. Local authorities are best placed to set the conditions to help an area thrive. Bill Kidd. I thank the minister for his kind reply. The minister will be aware that Drumchapel formally had a much-needed and highly successful shopping and entertainment centre, which was devastated by Strathclyde regional councils' decision that it would not be a strategic shopping centre. It was subsequently run down to the extent that it is now a small shell of its former existence that fails to serve the needs of my constituents who need to travel for any significant shopping. I know that that exists in other parts of Scotland, but that is a prime example. The Scottish Government is aware that many town centres across Scotland are struggling, and a lot of that is down to decisions that were made in the past, such as the one that Mr Kidd has outlined. The Scottish Government will continue to work closely with the retail sector to maximise its potential in relation to the town centre agenda. Scotland's town centre first principle, which we have agreed with COSLA, together with a range of measures in the town centre action plan, set the conditions and underpin activity, designed to tackle key issues such as empty shops. That also allows for the diversification of town centres and, thereby, attracting new businesses and services in those places. We recognise the value of a vibrant retail sector, and we will continue to work with others to ensure that we carry on with those partnerships to improve areas such as Drumchapol. To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to follow up on the automation of benefits to help poorer families. I know that that is an issue that Paul McNeill has taken a keen interest in, and the Scottish Government is keen to also progress it. We recognise that, where feasible, the automation of assistance can play an important role in helping people to access their full entitlement to benefits and to passported benefits. That is why the Scottish Government supported the member's amendment on the issue in the Child Poverty Scotland Bill, and we will discuss automation with the local reference group, which is established to develop guidance for local authorities and health boards on the duties that Bill places on them at the next meeting, which is scheduled for October. According to the daily record, the poorest in Scotland are missing out on £2 billion worth of benefits. Automation of certain benefits could make a difference to that. I would like to thank the Minister and indeed the Social Security Committee for supporting my amendment at stage 2, and the commitment that is just given the Parliament this afternoon. I would like to further ask the Minister if any assessment has been done on what benefits might be suitable for automation, or perhaps that is a subject for the meeting that you talked about, and if there would be a requirement to allow for any adjustment in future budgets should automation be possible? I appreciate what the member is asking. Automation, to the scale and extent that she is talking about beyond a single local authority, and to the scale and extent that we wish to pursue if we can as a Scottish Government, is a bit more complex, as I am sure she will understand, because more than one system is involved. It would involve local authority systems, Scottish Government and, of course, the DWP for the benefits that they continue to be responsible for. Realising that requires significant discussion. We will start around the child poverty bill, as I have just outlined. We are continuing to look at it as part of our development of our own social security system and discuss that with local authorities and others. Indeed, with her colleague Mr Rowley's support, very welcome support, we recently convened a round table discussion with local authorities to increase benefit uptake across the piece. We will follow that through with a follow-up round table, which he and I have agreed on. From there we will continue to discuss between local authorities and ourselves how we might pursue that in practical terms, that significant Scottish-wide automation where it is possible. That all needs to be thought about and taken account of before we feed anything into a future budget discussion. The Financial Memorandum accompanying the Social Security Bill talks of a £190 million cost associated with IT in the new social security agency. To what extent has the modelling that has led to that £190 million figure taken into account the possibility of automation of benefits? That figure that Mr Tomkins refers to is of course in terms of the setup of our own social security system in Scotland to take responsibility for the 11 benefits that will be devolved to us. Alongside the work that is going on in that IT bill, learning the lessons of course from previous programmes, where those programmes worked and where improvements can be made, alongside all that, our chief digital officer and other Government colleagues are working across our stakeholders, taking account of what I have just said to Ms McNeill in terms of automation, but with a primary focus on building an IT system that can safely and securely make the payments so that when we take over those responsibilities for the benefits, the 1.4 million people who are affected receive the money that they are entitled to on the day that they expect them to receive that. First, I declare an interest as a registered nurse to ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to assess the models of healthcare that are used in primary and community services. How NHS boards and integration authorities design and deliver their local primary and community services is a matter for them in consultation with all stakeholders, including members of the local communities. To support service redesign, the Scottish Government has made available £43.5 million during 2016-18 to support around 70 tests of change and other activity through the primary care transformation programme. Emma Harper Thank you, cabinet secretary. In light of local issues raised by those living west of Dumfries and Galloway, how does the Scottish Government directly support NHS Dumfries and Galloway to provide Galloway community hospital and local GP services with the support required while GP and other doctor vacancies are being filled? Cabinet secretary, firstly, I say to Emma Harper that we are investing to ensure that NHS Dumfries and Galloway has the resource that it needs. Its resource budget has increased by 6.8 per cent in real terms between 2010-11 and 2017-18. The board's resource is £283.6 million for 2017-18, which includes an uplift of £4.2 million. We also keep in touch with the health and social care partnership regarding the important community hospital and other issues. The partnership is committed to maintaining services at the hospital and considering how services can be improved going forward with a programme of community engagement under way and a hospital lasing group being formed. As other health boards, we expect to work with local GP practices to help them overcome any recruitment and retention challenges. Of course, we are investing an additional £250 million per year in direct support of general practice by the end of this Parliament as part of a wider £500 million investment in primary care. Miles Briggs Audit Scotland has repeatedly highlighted the Scottish Government's lack of progress in shifting the balance of care away from an acute setting. How will the cabinet secretary ensure that current efforts make a real change? Specifically, what assessment has she done of the transitional funding that she has just read out today? I thank Miles Briggs for that question. He will be aware that the programme for government laid out a very clear ambition that, by the end of this Parliament, over half of the spend will be within community health services. That is a big transition, a big change and will have an impact as we move resources from acute services into community health services. We need to make sure that we do that in a proper, planned and sustainable way, which is why I have asked Professor Derek Bell to work as part of a collaborative to look at the transformation of elective capacity within our acute services so that we can drive those resources into the community to keep people out of the hospital. Neil Findlay Across the Lothians GP practices under the current model are closing their lists to patients. Many are a GP resignation away from collapse and are relying on locums to stay open. What practical advice does the cabinet secretary have for GP practices that find themselves in this situation here and now? Will she apologise to patients for the Government's mishandling and underfunding of general practice? As I said in my original answer, we will be investing £250 million in direct support of general practice every year by the end of this Parliament as part of a wider £500 million investment in primary care. That is an unprecedented investment in primary care services, but I recognise that there are recruitment and retention issues in a number of GP practices in the community here and now. That is why health boards have been tasked to work with those practices to help them overcome some of those difficulties. They are providing real and practical support to GP practices, but it is also important that we make general practice a more rewarding career opportunity for young doctors who are choosing their specialty. That is why we are also negotiating a completely new GP contract that we are very confident that we will have that result and that we are working with the BMA to deliver that. To ask the Scottish Government what role the police and the crime office have in dealing with wildlife crime. Wildlife crime is crime and perpetrators will be investigated and if there is sufficient evidence prosecuted as with any other crime. However, we are aware that there are characteristics of wildlife crime that do require a specialised approach. For example, it often takes place in remote areas where there are no witnesses and, of course, there are usually no victims able to report what has happened to them. For those reasons, we are working with Police Scotland to expand the resources available to them to tackle wildlife crime with a pilot project to provide additional special constables in the Cairngorms national park. The crime office also has a specialist wildlife and environmental crime unit to tackle those types of crime. Marie Gougeon The cabinet secretary will be aware of the shooting of a henharrier on the Cabrach estate recently and another recent disappearance of Caluna, a satellite-tagged henharrier near Ballotar. In light of those incidents, what action is being taken by the Scottish Government to implement the recommendations of the satellite tagging review? I am, of course, aware of those appalling incidents. In the light of the satellite tagging review announced on 31 May that we would be bringing forward a number of measures, including setting up an independently led group to look at grousemore management practices and increasing Police Scotland resources, as I have already mentioned. In accordance with that, there has also been good progress being made on those areas. I will announce further details shortly. In the meantime, other work goes on with police responding to and investigating reports received and actions such as further use of restrictions on general licences by SNH, where it is suspected that wildlife crime has taken place. We are determined to put an end to this form of crime. That concludes general questions.