zero accounting software report formatting basics get ready to be an office hero with zero here we are in our custom zero homepage we set up in a prior presentation scrolling in a bit holding control scrolling up on the mouse wheel currently at 175 percent scroll in opening the demo file but doing so with the reset button resetting the data and opening the demo we're gonna be opening two tabs to put our major financial statement reports in as we do every time hiding this open right click and then we'll duplicate the tab up top we'll right-click and then duplicate the tab again go back to the tab to the left accounting drop-down we want then the balance sheet report tab to the right we're gonna open up the income statement accounting drop-down and income statement as that is thinking tab to the left and we're gonna change the date as we have been doing every time and we're gonna customize it and bring the date up to 2022 end of the period and update that information okay so last time we went over the balance sheet in general now we want to look at some of the formatting tools that zero has to adjust reports support accounting instruction by clicking the link below giving you a free month membership to all of the content on our website broken out by category further broken out by course each course then organized in a logical reasonable fashion making it much more easy to find what you need then can be done on a YouTube page we also include added resources such as Excel practice problems PDF files and more like QuickBooks backup files when applicable so once again click the link below for a free month membership to our website and all the content on it although we're focused in on the balance sheet many of the tools will be looking at will be applicable to other reports as well and as we go through them remember that the balance sheet and the income statement are from a reporting standpoint in essence the end result what we're trying to create when we do the data input entering these forms which create financial transactions constructing the balance sheet income statement and related reports balance sheet represents things as of a point in time the income statement has a time frame a beginning and an end a performance report so it's also useful when you're looking at these tools to consider that framework in terms of the other reports you might apply these tools to are they more like an income statement report that are measuring performance meaning they have a time range a beginning and an end or a balance sheet type of report which are showing where we stand as of a point in time so for example the accounts receivable has other reports which are going to break out who owes us the money by customer so if that's what it's showing it's still showing who owes us stuff as of a point in time as of this date whereas if I have reports related to the income statement I might have a report that shows me the sales by customer or by item and that's going to have to have a beginning and an end what do you mean sales for like a month sales for a year and so on and so forth and that could have an impact in terms of of your dates and what not when you're using some of these tools up top okay I also just want to note when we're looking at these reports if I go to the first tab and we go to the accounting drop down and look at these reports you you might say hey look there's not as many reports in other kinds of accounting software say like a QuickBooks for example but just realize that a lot of reports that are in say other software like a QuickBooks are actually just compilations changes modifications adjustments of the main reports so many times you can make a whole lot of different reports just from a balance sheet and income statement for example by just changing the ranges you're looking at looking at am I looking at one period multiple period multiple months this year compared to last year so when you get into comparative reports there's a whole bunch of other reports zero doesn't really really flood their report center as much as like say QuickBooks does with some of these comparative reports which are really just things that have been corrupt that have been created from the major financial statement reports because you could build them yourself so I just want to kind of note that out as we go we will get into those comparative kind of reports and how to build them zero has a really nice tool that's more flexible in a lot of ways than other accounting software to do that okay so that said we're going to go over here balance sheet is as of a point in time so if you have the drop down up top you could say that you want to run it as of today so if you're running your accounting system in real time that could be useful of course end of this month so you might say hey look it's currently the 8th right now so I could run it as of the end of the month December and then end of last month so you might want to say I want to have it to the end of the last full month end of last quarter the end of the last year the end of the last year and then of course the custom date so if we're not working in real time the custom date is often useful now notice that sometimes it's useful to have like these indicator range right end of end of the last month indicates a range and although we're still reporting this if I update this as of the end of November we do have related reports when I go into the data here so if I drill down on the data then this is a report that's more like an income statement report in that it's showing us activity over a time frame so notice that that zero generally is going all the way from January through so if I go into a report then the general default will typically on the balance sheet go from from the beginning of the year your fiscal year to the end so whenever you drill down you're gonna have to change the range here so if I just want to see this detailed report for the November 1st and update it so now I've got the detail for the activity in November so you want to have an idea of what's going to happen when you drill down on the data in terms of this is kind of like a GL report checking account transactions report they're gonna call it but they give us the detail by date all right let's go back and let's go back again here we go I'm gonna change the date back to a custom date and let's put it at the end of December which has been what we've been working with mainly so there is that so then we can compare with you got your comparative items compare month so let's check that out compare month so now we've got December 2021 I mean sorry 2022 versus November 2022 so you can give us the side-by-side comparison there and this is where we get into all a whole lot of variations now note that these variations are kind of like the custom variations because they're just showing us the side-by-side with basically a default custom drop-down so these are the most common ones we can go into a lot more variations by going by building our own layout reports down here which we'll talk about later so we've got two months so if I go to the two months so now we've got December November October notice when I look at it this way it's showing the the latest month first which is quite common because that's going to be the instead of showing it from oldest to newest we're showing most recent which is going to be the most relevant data most of the time to the least relevant data so once again we've got this nice side-by-side for two months and we can go to the three months and update it and so now we've got three the three months and then of course the four months enter a different number so we could go 12 if we want to go all the way up to 12 and update that I don't know if I updated the last one with the three months and so now we've got this long report here that could be useful especially if we export it now again notice if you're looking at a balance sheet you're trying to say what reports am I going to be giving to say a client or supervisor now you've got all these reports that you can think about just with the balance sheet right do I want the balance sheet as of a point in time I might have balance sheet that compares the prior month possibly the prior three months the months to date and stuff like that starts to get a lot of different reports so then you might also consider the periods in terms of quarters so if I look at the quarters and then I say I want to have let's say two quarters here and then I'll update that so now we've got the two quarters so we've got the December September and then June so and then I can bring it down to one maybe so now we've got September and December quarters so we got some nice you know standard comparative kind of options let's bring it back to none and update we've got our filtering options so if you have your if you have things like regions set up then you can pull the data and this is this is kind of interesting because notice like sometimes you might especially it is more common on the income statement if you used something to break out your transactions by column for example often happening on the income statement to try to break out by region that's one kind of tool that can be used in accounting software but here we're gonna we could say well what if I want to filter the data that's in this current number and filter out by region so I'm just want to say I just want to have the data that are using the regions of the east side and apply that now you've got your filtering your filtering options down here let's say I just do north apply I didn't update it that's why and so so now we've got a difference in the data that's being pulled in so that's kind of an uninteresting feature that's would be a customized feature that would be used if you're if you have regions if you're sorting your data by regions which is kind of a specialty area so we might touch on that more in a little bit but we won't go into it in a lot of detail but it's kind of an interesting feature I'm gonna update it back again so now we're back into our total data and then we've got that more options we've got the good old accrual versus cash option this one a lot of accounting softwares have this kind of check between these two things and I think it's really a neat feature to have but just realized that that from a from a pragmatic standpoint it kind of confuses people sometimes because you might say hey look I want to be on a cash-based system for in other words I would not move it from accrual I would keep it on accrual unless you have a specific reason to be going to the cash-based method and the reason for that is because even if you are using a cash-based system you're not using a cash-based system just because you click this little box that says cash-based it's usually based on your flow what kind of industry you're in and how that industry works so for example if I jump over here to our to our flow chart and we think about you you also can have a difference in terms of are you on a cash-based or accrual based with regards to your two main cycles the vendor cycle or expense cycle and the customer cycle so for example on the vendor cycle you you you're gonna at the end of the day cash is going out for goods and services that we are buying in the business now the easiest way to do that a cash-based system would be that we're just gonna pay for it possibly electronically as they come up with in essence a check form or a money out type of form possibly just using bank feeds to do that in that case we're on a cash-based system because the form that we're using is just going to record the decrease in cash and expense when we enter it I don't need to click the little box to check from an accrual to cash-based system it's already on a cash-based system because of the business we are in and how we're conducting it if we're entering a bill into the system that's an accrual form increasing the accounts payable account so if you're tracking accounts payable you don't want to click to a cash-based system because you want to track the outstanding bill and if you if you switch to a cash-based system you would think what would happen then is the system's not going to record the expense until you pay the bill which could be a neat feature to have if you know what you're doing but you don't want to like think that you're on a cash-based system when you're entering bills and you're a cruel system just because you click the little cash-based base button right on the and on the revenue side you could have you could be on a cash-based system on vendors but accrual on the revenue side so for example revenue if you're in a gig economy you might be able to wait till something just like clears the bank and then record the increase with it with a with a money in form a deposit form in essence and revenue at that time but you also might be having to have a food truck kind of situation where you have a cash register or a store where you still are on a cash-based system but you're recording the the receipts at the point in time you receive them these two you methods you'd still be on a cash-based system in essence just because of the way you enter the data not because you click the button on the report to be cash-based but if you're in a system where you have to invoice the client because you have to do the work first like a bookkeeping firm a law firm landscaping then then it is what it is right you have to track the accounts receivable so that's what you want to do if you click the cash- based button and you're entering invoices what it's going to do is it's not going to record the the revenue until you receive the payment in terms of the financial reporting but that's but you but for your normal reporting if you have to track accounts receivable you're gonna want to have accounts receivable so that's the general the general thing there so be careful with it notice if I these accounts right here accounts receivable and accounts payable are basically a cruel accounts so if you were to say I'm gonna I'm gonna switch to a cash-based system and show accounting basis so I'm gonna say okay so then you would think those those accounts basically go away right there are no accounts receivable and accounts payable does that mean I didn't enter an invoice no it means that the system is now not recording the the transaction until you receive payment from it right it's it's gonna wait to record the transaction even though you entered an invoice until you get the payment because it's a cash-based system and there are no accounts receivable and accounts payable on a cash-based system okay enough with that we're gonna go back to a cruel just keep it on the cruel unless unless you have a reason to do otherwise be be careful with it so then we've got show the accounting basis so we can show those items and the account codes which are basically like the account numbers and the decimals so I'll keep all of that on for now show all that so now we've got the code numbers which could be nice because and this is a great feature in zero that for some reason other software like like QuickBooks doesn't have I don't believe which is the fact that you can turn the codes on and off right so so it's kind of nice that if you're gonna print this report you don't want to have your account numbers oftentimes in the report so you can turn them off or you can put them back on if you put the codes on then it's gonna order within each of these account sections by code I believe right because that's so that's the ordering that it's gonna be if you turn them off I believe it's gonna default to an order of alphabetical order so if I turn this off accounts payable will be above the checking account because this the checking account is a the reason the checking accounts down here is because it's a negative balance I believe instead of up top so let's go ahead and change it back and test that theory out so I'm gonna say let's take the codes off and then boom it also shows the accrual basis and the title up here that's what the accrual basis does so now the accounts payable is first right now it's an alphabetical order so that's a nice way that you can kind of organize your accounts by code if you want to do that although then the code kind of shows up which is not as nice for external reporting but in any case there's another way that you could sort your data to that we'll look at shortly and that's with the edit layout over here so then we've now we've got the account numbers on which is neat so you can turn them on I like turning them off oftentimes unless unless I want more detail in my reporting so I'll turn the decibels off and I don't need code numbers I don't need the accrual basis so I'll turn that off so those are those options then you've got the information on the left-hand side balance sheet so you've got your kind of standard comparative reports so I got my monthly comparative reports so notice again other software I'm gonna close this up so now you've got kind of your default comparative report here other software let's change the date up to here and update we'll have these kind of comparative default reports possibly in in over here in the reports area so you they've got they've got some standard comparative reports basically on this arrow on the left-hand side so it's I kind of I kind of like it that way so now so you don't have as much stuff cluttering up your your reports but you still have those default kind of comparative reports over here and of course with the option to make them in the drop-down for the default with your default reports so those are those and then you've got your custom reports which we'll get into in a little bit more detail and you have a lot of customization features down here in the edit layout so if I go into that this is where you can do a lot of more customizable things than you can do in other accounting software so we can we can make our custom reports and we can save them once we have made them so I'm gonna we'll talk about that more in the future gonna close that out for now look forward to that though that'll be good and then you've got you've got the compact view which kind of tightens things up a bit so I'm gonna go back to the standard view and then you've got the insert so add add a note so if I wanted to add a note somewhere so now I've got these little tags on the right so I can I can add a note to it so if I'm going back and forth and you know have some comments on it then I can put my comments and my in my notes to them so that's kind of neat if you're working with other people and you're doing some more like audit kind of work and then I can save this item save it as a draft save it as a custom kind of item so that when I go into my reports over here then I can save my reports here's the drop down custom drafts and I can put them into like custom reports so that I can sort them out so we'll talk more about saving the reports later and then we can export as a PDF Excel or or Google and usually the printing options within and this is this is nice because this is another one that I don't think like like some of the QuickBooks export directly to Google oftentimes you have the Excel option so that's kind of nice because a lot of people are going to the Google suite kind of products and and having the web-based stuff that might be a little bit easier sometimes and then we've got the PDF now if you're gonna print something the typical format within zero is to is to open it as a PDF and then print it right so we'll open it up and then you've got your printing options once it's opened from the PDF so those are the general formatting in future reports we'll build some comparative reports and we'll use the more the more complex edit layout which is quite flexible and impressive and and has more options than other software such as like a QuickBooks so it's a neat feature


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gyda'r cyffaddEveryone. The question number one is for the Scottish Government to ask what action it is taking to support much of NHS Grampian and reducing the board's waiting times. Shona Robison NHS Grampian is using £4.9 million from the £50 million that is made available to boards in the current financial year to address long waits across the whole patient pathway, including in specialities such as orthopedics and ophthalmology. NHS Grampian has received £470,000 of the £4.85 million cancer funding that was released in 1718. That funding has been provided to ensure that cancer patients are continued to be prioritised and treated within the expected waiting times wherever clinically possible. That revenue is being targeted to increase scope in diagnostic and imaging capacity. Peter Chapman I thank you, cabinet secretary, for that answer. For the past nine months, NHS Grampian has had the worst waiting times in Scotland. In that time, more than 18,000 people have waited over 18 weeks for treatment. Core revenue expenditure for NHS Grampian is the second lowest in Scotland, with a spend per head of only £1,671. Does the cabinet secretary admit that that is unacceptable? Will she apologise to the people of Grampian? Shona Robison In 2018-19, NHS Grampian's resource budget will be £920.6 million. That is an uplift of 2.1 per cent compared to 2017-18, which is the highest of any territorial NHS board. I should say that that situation would be worse if we were to apply the Tory tax plans, which would have taken £49.5 million out of Grampian's resource budget. I really do not behold the member to come here complaining about Grampian's resource budget, when he would have taken almost £50 million out of that, had his plans gone ahead. Liam McArthur The cabinet secretary will be aware that waiting times not only affect those in the Grampian region, but also those covered by the island health boards, including Orkney. Can she update the Parliament on what discussions she or her officials have had with NHS Orkney about the additional investment going into NHS Grampian and how that meets the needs of island patients from Orkney and indeed from Shetland? Shona Robison As Liam McArthur will be aware, the involvement of Orkney and Shetland in those discussions is very important. As he knows very well, many of his constituents will rely on the services of NHS Grampian for procedures that cannot be carried out on the islands. The resources that have gone on, and of course Orkney and Shetland, will have also received their share of the £50 million waiting times initiative, as well as NHS Grampian. What I would expect—I know that it is happening very much in the north of Scotland—is that boards are working together to maximise collaboration to make sure that they can shorten the patient journey to share resources. There are, for example, shortages of specialist staff that look for north-wide solutions in order to recruit specialist staff. That work has been led very well by Malcolm Wright, and I am very happy to write to the member with more detail if he finds that helpful. supplementary Richard Lochhead I welcome the extra cash for NHS Grampian. Can I draw the cabinet secretary's attention to the growing frustration that is being expressed by the campaign group APACER in terms of the long waiting times for pain clinics, particularly in Murray, given that people do not want to have to travel to Aberdeen all the time for treatment? Can she investigate this and perhaps try to provide an update both to myself and directly to the campaign group APACER? One member of the campaign group, Brenda Carnegie, was quoted in the press and journal this week saying that she has been waiting for nearly two years for injections to get every six months if she could perhaps investigate these issues as well. I am happy to do that and to get back to the member. What I will say is that, nationally, almost three quarters of patients referred to a pain clinic were seen within the 18-week standard. That is a significant increase in the previous quarter, but, of course, there was too much local variation across boards, something that we want to eradicate. I assure you that the Government is very much committed to ensuring that all patients, no matter where they live, have swift access to the full range of services that they need. I am aware that waiting times are longer than we would expect in NHS Grampian. They have had significant staff absences in the past year that has affected this area. I know that there has been recent recruitment that has been successful and has enabled additional clinics to be offered, but, in terms of what the member was asking around the pain clinics in Murray, I am happy to look into that and get back to him. Given that early diagnosis can make the difference between successful and unsuccessful treatment for diseases such as cancer, I know that the cabinet secretary will agree with Cancer Research UK on the importance of early diagnosis and investigation. Can she tell us what specific steps she will take to reduce waiting times for diagnosis and investigation for patients with such diseases in Grampian? Obviously, Lewis Macdonald will be aware of the work that is being taken forward by the cancer strategy, which is looking to improve cancer services across Scotland. As I said in my initial answer, NHS Grampian has received £470,000 of the £4.85 million cancer funding last year, and the focus of that money has been very much in increasing scope and diagnostic and imaging capacity. That will continue to be our focus. We know that once a person is diagnosed, their journey from then on to treatment is very short, so it is the diagnostic pathway that we need to shorten. He might also be aware that I chair a national group of the very best experts in the field that are looking at the best practice, because there is, again, still variation around that diagnostic pathway. We are looking at making sure that we can do everything possible to shorten that diagnostic pathway. I am happy to keep the member appraised of any detail. 2. Mark Griffin Thank you, Presiding Officer. To ask the Scottish Government when details of the fund to support parents of premature babies in hospitals will be announced. Shona Robison We are pleased to announce that the neonatal expenses fund will go live on 1 April and will be available to families of all babies in neonatal care. We have worked with NHS boards and the neonatal charity bliss to develop a clear and simple scheme that is universally accessible. I have written to all boards this week to outline the details. I want to record the members' active interest and pursuits of the issue, which is well understood and certainly very welcome. Mark Griffin I thank the cabinet secretary for her answer and the work that has gone into setting up the funding. I am delighted to say that it will start on my daughter, Rosa's first birthday. Can I ask the cabinet secretary what levels of support the fund will provide each day and whether there are daily limits? The cabinet secretary will be aware that there will be babies born before 1 April and still be in a hospital after this point. It is an assurance that babies born earlier than 1 April this year will be able to access the fund. How and used will the fund be tracked throughout the year and what provisions are in place if the fund is exhausted within the financial year? Shona Robison I think that it is very appropriate that the fund is launched on baby Rosa's birthday. I can't think about anything more appropriate. I can say to the member that the fund will support parents with travel costs, parking and meals. I can tell him that we will be making it very easy for people to claim. I will leave it in a copy of the claim form. It will be given to families when their baby is admitted to a neonatal unit. In addition, posters advertise in the scheme to make sure that people are aware of it. It is important that we review and monitor it to see whether there are any adjustments that are required. We will review the scheme after six months and at the end of the first year to evaluate the provision. We can consider whether there are any changes to the scheme that might be necessary. Of course, we would want to hear from parents in that regard who are using it. Prior to 1 April, I will write to the member with that information, because I want to be accurate about that. However, I am happy to generally keep the member informed of this and the detail going forward, given his active interest. Fulton MacGregor, followed by Miles Priggs, will ask the cabinet secretary what engagement the Scottish Government has had with the UK Government regarding the extension of maternity leave and statutory maternity pay for parents of premature or sick babies, and just to remind the chamber that I am the PLO to the cabinet secretary. Fulton MacGregor raises an important point about additional support that families in this situation would no doubt welcome. I am aware that, in September of this year, at the request of the business minister, Margot James, ACAS published new guidance for employers to help them to support staff who have given birth to premature or very sick babies. I certainly welcome that move to provide information to parents on their rights and to employers on how best to support and hope that that will have some positive results for parents. The Scottish Government supports the proposal. I believe that it has also been raised by the neonatal charity, Bliss. We certainly will be working with our colleagues with responsibility for childcare in early years in social security to make sure that we keep pressure on the UK Government to do its bit. I start by paying tribute to Mark Griffin in helping to secure the £1.5 million fund for parents of premature babies. Alongside the fund, the health secretary announced in December that she was working with health boards to ensure that sufficient and free accommodation for all parents whose premature babies are in hospital. Can she update Parliament on the progress that has been made on that front? All boards have some provision for accommodation where there is a need for family to stay. 14 out of the 15 units currently offer accommodation for parents within their unit, and 11 others offer accommodation elsewhere within the hospital. We are working with boards and that continues to ensure that there is sufficient free of charge accommodation available to all parents who need it. Progress is being made, but there is still some progress yet to be made. To ask the Scottish Government what analysis the health secretary has made of the potential implications for Scotland of the findings in the recent annual report of the chief medical officer for England, which addressed the impact on public health of pollution. We welcome the broad-ranging and thorough report from the chief medical officer for England. Work by the Scottish Government, our partners and stakeholders to deliver environmental protection and improvement is supported by Scottish specific advice from the chief medical officer for Scotland and Health Protection Scotland. Many of the issues identified in the report have relevance to Scotland and Health Protection Scotland will consider the findings in detail to add to the evidence-based directing work that is taking place, for example, through cleaner air for Scotland to reduce the burden of disease from pollution in this country. Can I thank the minister for that response? One of the main findings of the report is that we simply do not know what the combined effects are of different forms of pollutants, such as noise, light and air, and the impact that that can have on health inequalities. Those are all issues that greatly concern my constituents who live in the shadow of the Moss Moran plant in Fife. Will the minister support calls for a long-term health study into the combination effects of the different forms of pollutants around the Moss Moran site? In recognising that the chief medical officer's report for England was broad-ranging, it identified a number of those areas that Mark Ruskell articulates around noise, light and air. There is work currently being carried out on a number of those issues already in Scotland, and happily we will take any concerns that his constituents have into account, happy to meet with the member if that would help if he wanted to further elaborate on some of the specific concerns that his constituents have, but the three issues that he raised are noise, light and air. There is work happening right across those areas, and we can continue to make improvements where we need to. The minister will be well aware that air pollution from particular matter is responsible for 2,000 early deaths in Scotland each year, and exposure to nitrogen dioxide in pm 2.5 causes 2,500 premature deaths each year, according to Royal College of Physicians. Does the minister share my view that those least responsible for air pollution are the worst affected and that are the most vulnerable in our society? Does the minister share my view that the action that is required is urgent roll-out of low-admission zones, additional funding for active travel and bus regulation? There are, as he knows, a number of actions that are being taken forward by the Government on a range of the issues that Dave Stewart outlines. We are, as a country, meeting domestic and European air quality targets across much of Scotland, but we understand and recognise that there are hotspots of poorer air quality in a number of the urban areas. He is right to identify the inequality that is linked to some of those who are most impacted by that. We have set more stringent air quality targets than the rest of the UK. Scotland is the first country in Europe to legislate for a particular matter, a pollutant that is of special concern for human health. We also have money and resources that are attributed to the efforts that we want to do, and not least the low-admission zones that the cabinet secretary announced fairly recently. There are a number of areas in which we are taking forward progress, in recognition of the fact that that does have an impact and can have an impact on people's quality of life. Therefore, we need to endeavour across portfolios to make sure that we can alleviate that as best we can. I ask members to be a bit more succinct with their questions and to be a bit more succinct with their answers. That way, more people can get in with supplementaries. To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made rolling out the healthier, wealthier children approach to income maximisation across Scotland. The Scottish Government remains committed to embedding across all NHS boards healthier, wealthier children's key principles of health and advice services joining up to ensure pregnant women and families have access to financial advice when they need it. To progress this, we asked NHS Health Scotland to carry out a scoping exercise that ran between March and October last year with all NHS boards to establish their current position with embedding of health and advice service referral pathways. This exercise showed that, while a number of boards have formalised referral pathways, some are at an earlier stage in their journey. NHS Health Scotland has established a short-life subgroup of Scotland's health promotion managers group to make recommendations to the Scottish Government on next steps to ensure that all boards establish pathways. We expect to receive those recommendations in April this year, and we will consider them carefully to inform our next steps. Alison Johnstone I thank the minister for her response. Our research suggests that, based on the success of healthier, wealthier children in 2012, rolling the programme out across Scotland would lead to gains of at least £9.4 million for pregnant women and families in the greatest need. The evidence that we have clearly suggests that this helps to improve health and reduce inequalities. The minister has made to the point there very clearly that referral pathways are key. Can I ask the minister to be specific about what additional resourcing will be put in place to deliver the pledges? How much cash will the Government use to fund the show-out? I think that analysis that Alison Johnstone outlines shows the compelling need to make sure that this can happen. That is why it is important that we have that understanding about the situation across the country. The child poverty delivery plan will be essential in progressing healthier, wealthier children, which will enable resources to help to progress the important programme. I am not in the position to outline exactly that funding, however we will endeavour to ensure that the member is kept up to date because she is right to articulate that by spending a little we can potentially save many people and many families a lot and help to reduce inequalities. Question 5, Rachael Hamilton. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to tackle health inequalities and what role having access to arts and culture can play in this. Reducing health inequalities is one of the biggest challenges that we face. They are a symptom of wider social inequalities and that is why we are focusing on the underlying causes that drive health inequalities, ending poverty, fair wages, supporting families and improving our physical and social environments. The Government is working in collaboration with individuals, communities and organisations across Scotland to develop a culture strategy that will set out a vision and priorities for the future development of culture in Scotland, enabling everyone to have the opportunity to take part or contribute to cultural life in Scotland. We know that people who engage with and participate in culture activities report better health outcomes and we are seeking to better embed arts and culture into health and care settings. Many organisations working in the arts, such as the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival, are recognising the health benefits that they can bring to their audiences. Rachael Hamilton. Minister for that answer. Aileen Campbell is right that the Scottish Government found that participation in culture is significantly linked to good health and high life satisfaction in Scotland. In fact, Cabinet Secretary Fiona Hyslop said that starting young and being encouraged to take part in culture as a child makes it more likely that benefits of taking part will be experienced as an adult. As such, does the minister agree with me that recent decisions concerning the Scottish Youth Theatre and other services have the potential to damage the nation's health? Will she agree that more needs to be done to increase access, especially for young people to arts and culture throughout Scotland to improve health outcomes? Aileen Campbell. I absolutely concur with the sentiments expressed by the cabinet secretary that if we enable young people to participate in the arts and culture, they are more likely to be able to enjoy that in later life. The same goes perhaps for sport. Similarly to sport, that is why we have endeavoured to ensure that we can offset the cuts from the UK national lottery, which has threatened many of our cultural and sporting organisations that enable young people to participate in the arts and culture. I recognise the on-going and very topical issue around the Scottish Youth Theatre. I understand that there are continued-to-be discussions on that issue to ensure that that very much-loved and well-respected organisation can ensure some sort of sustainable future. Elaine Smith. Thank you, Presiding Officer. As the minister seems aware that the health inequalities and including inequalities in mental health are often a symptom of poverty, will she commit to the Government addressing the shortfall and funding for other local community projects that give more deprived communities an opportunity to engage in arts and culture activities? Aileen Campbell. Again, I was imagining that my colleague Fiona Hyslop would have more to say and can certainly direct some of the information that maybe Aileen seeks to the culture department. However, as I said in my previous response to Rachel Hamilton, what we have done to try to protect some of our cultural organisers is to offset the cuts that have been experienced through the UK lottery, which has threatened many organisations that have relied on that revenue source, the same story that we experienced in sport. It was important that the Scottish Government stepped into offset those reductions. We recognise, as I said in my original answer, that we recognise that inequalities are something that we want to reduce, we want to reverse, we want to make sure that many young people get the opportunity to participate in arts and culture, and that is why it is important that we continue to press the national lottery to make sure that there is an adequate strategy to reduce the fallen revenues there. To ask the Scottish Government how the NHS monitors children diagnosed with fetal alcohol syndrome. The Scottish Government funds NHS Scotland to provide a range of services to promote and protect the health of children. Hospitals, general practice and nursing services provide on-going healthcare to children diagnosed with long-term medical conditions such as fetal alcohol syndrome. In July 2017, we launched the fetal alcohol spectrum disorder care pathway, which is an e-learning resource for health professionals, which aims to help with the diagnosis of the condition and support the families and carers of affected children. In Scotland, we have benefited from the support needs system that allows for the recording of children with diverse types of health needs, including those resulting from fetal alcohol syndrome. The system has currently been reviewed. Does the minister agree with me that it is important to have an interconnected system throughout Scotland? Will the review consider a single data recording system, rather than one that is fragmented into health board areas? Eilidh Campbell Mae cair is absolutely right to point to the fact that we need consistency in terms of the way in which we diagnose and record incidences of fetal alcohol syndrome. Health boards record the diagnosis of conditions on their local information systems and the FASD care pathway, which we launched last July, provides all health professionals with the necessary information to help with the diagnostic and support process. There is also a multidisciplinary professional sign group looking specifically at the assessment and diagnosis of fetal alcohol syndrome. That is due to report by the end of this year. We will certainly ensure that the points and issues raised by Rona Mackay around the consistency of diagnosis is part of that work. Quick supplementary, please, Brian Whittle. Thank you, Deputy Presiding Officer. I will ask that on behalf of a constituent of mine who is asking what the process is following the birth of children with fetal alcohol syndrome and perhaps the effects of opiates from a social care intervention perspective and child protection perspective. The prevalence of fetal alcohol syndrome is very complex. There is not a single treatment for fetal alcohol spectrum disorder, which varies in its presentation and its severity, but it is recognised as a lifelong condition. There is evidence that early intervention support, for example, to enhance learning and managed self-regulation and behaviour, can be beneficial. That involves early enrolment with relevant educational resources and other agencies such as social and psychological services. Enhance the awareness and recognition of FASD and adopting the getting it right for every child approach to support families can optimise the long-term management of FASD. Again, though, if the member would like to write to me with the specifics around his, I would be content to take that further. To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making with the clinical review of cancer waiting times and when the results will be published. The clinical review of cancer access standards in Scotland provides an excellent opportunity to examine how information on cancer waiting times could be best used to modify and enhance the patient experience. It will determine if any amendments or modifications are required to ensure that the cancer waiting time standards best meet the needs of patients and the NHS for the future. A wide range of views from stakeholders, including patients, the public, primary and secondary care clinicians, data staff and third sector organisations have been collated to help to formulate the review recommendations. Those recommendations are being finalised with a view to publication in the spring of this year. Maurice Corry I thank the cabinet secretary for that answer. Will the cabinet secretary be able to describe what actions are being considered as part of the clinical review of cancer waiting times targets to minimise inequalities of service across the health boards and to ensure that those missing the target are given the support that is needed to improve performance? Will the review be looking at the areas that have been suggested by Cancer Research UK? Shona Robison I think that it is first of all about making sure that the targets that we have are fit for purpose and then looking at what adjustments, if any, need to be made. There is wide clinical agreement broadly that the existing 62-day and 31-day standards have been crucial in driving performance and patient care, although there is still some improvement yet to be made. Also, it is looking at things such as pathway complexity and making sure that that is understood because for some cancers that pathway is more complex and whether those targets are appropriate in those circumstances. Also, whether for cancer types, some of those should be within the targets because, as he will be aware, not all are. I do not want to prejudge what the recommendations are but it has definitely the right people looking at that. I am confident that whatever those recommendations are, it will help us to make the improvements that will help to ensure that our cancer services are fit for purpose for the future. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce ambulance waiting times. Shona Robison The service is undertaking a number of measures to look at ways that it can further improve response times to calls from patients and healthcare professionals requesting an ambulance. They are also looking to improve pathways for patients to ensure that they receive the most appropriate clinical response to meet their needs. The service is committed to ensuring that it continues to deliver a high quality level of emergency healthcare to the people of Scotland and the Scottish Government continues to support the services that it takes forward this work. Jackie Baillie Stitching to Elizabeth Clayton is 100 years old, registered blind and lives in Renton, which is minutes away from the Vale of Leven hospital. She became ill at 2 p.m. Her doctor called for an ambulance to take her to the Vale. No ambulance appeared despite phone calls from the family and at 10 p.m. that same day, the call was upgraded to a 999 emergency. The ambulance eventually arrived at 1 a.m. 11 hours after it was first called. Will the cabinet secretary apologise to Mrs Clayton, who waited 11 hours in considerable pain, and what action will she take to support our dedicated paramedics by increasing the capacity of our ambulance service? Shona Robison Can I first say to Jackie Baillie that I would expect, in a case like that, that the Scottish Ambulance Service would be investigating. If she has not already passed it on to the Scottish Ambulance Service and she should, I would also want to see the details of that case. Of course I would apologise to Mrs Clayton for that. I would also want to know the context of when that happened, because Jackie Baillie will be aware of some of the challenges over the winter period that the Scottish Ambulance Service faced, but for Mrs Clayton that is no consolation. I would want to look into the details of that case as soon as possible. I am sure that Jackie Baillie will be aware that we have increased funding to the Scottish Ambulance Service to strengthen the workforce with the recruitment of a further 224 paramedics this year, in line with the commitment to see 1,000 more paramedics recruited by the end of 2021. She will also be aware that, in addition to the response in the emergency vehicles, she will be aware that there is also a lot of training of community paramedics going on, who will be able to see and treat people within their own homes where that is appropriate. To ask the Scottish Government, in light of information provided by the Scottish Parliament Information Centre, suggesting that NHS Grampian has been underfunded by £165.6 million since 2008, whether it plans to provide additional funding to meet that long-term short-form. I will repeat the response that I provided in the chamber to Mike Rumbles on 24 January this year. NHS Grampian will receive a resource budget uplift of 2.1 per cent in 2018-19, the highest percentage uplift of any territorial board. That includes £5 million share of additional NRAC parity funding and takes the board's annual resource budget to £921 million. Over a seven-year period, the Scottish Government has invested in the additional £1.2 billion in supporting those boards that are below their NRAC parity levels. In 2018-19, all boards will be within 0.8 per cent of NRAC parity. That is the first time that has been the case. Mike Rumbles The minister will be aware of the shocking report that was published yesterday, highlighting that, over a quarter of patients who suffer chronic pain disorders have been forced to wait longer than 18 weeks for treatment. Once again, NHS Grampian has the worst results for Scotland, with 542 people waiting desperately as the deadline for treatment has come and gone. Does the minister now agree with me that 10 years of underfunding have left NHS Grampian unable to deliver the same level of service that is received by patients in the rest of Scotland? It does not help just repeating an answer from January. Shona Robison The answer from January is factually correct. That is why I repeated it, because facts matter. NHS Grampian has received the highest percentage uplift of any territorial board and is within 0.8 per cent of NRAC parity. Earlier on, I said that the chronic pain waiting times had significantly improved from last quarter, but there was local variation. That local variation is for those above NRAC parity and those below NRAC parity. If you look at Ayrshire and Arun, for example, it has worked to do as well. To link that to the issue of NRAC parity is not correct. What NHS Grampian needs to do and is recruiting the staff that it needs to do to provide the clinics—I might rumbles listened to my earlier answer—he would have heard me say that NHS Grampian has had difficulties recruiting the staff to staff the clinics. They have been on a recruitment campaign and have had some success in that. That is not a money issue. That is about the ability to recruit staff. Perhaps if Mike Rumbles met with NHS Grampian more often, he might get the detail that he requires. The Scottish Government, what discussions the health secretary has had with the housing minister regarding action that can be taken to mitigate the cost of health inequalities brought about by poor or unsuitable housing? Aileen Campbell Ministers and officials have discussions on a wide range of issues aimed at tackling health and social inequality. I have met with the minister for local government housing regarding ways in which we can collaboratively create a fairer and healthier Scotland. For instance, a new fuel poverty strategy and warm house bill will contribute to a number of government objectives and will help to improve outcomes across Scotland. Its overarching ambition is to see a Scotland where everyone's life lives in a warm home, has sufficient income for healthy living, has access to affordable low-carbon energy and has the skills to make appropriate use of energy. Andy Wightman I thank the minister for the answer. Year on year increases in housing costs mean that housing affordability for many people remain a key driver of inequalities, particularly for people in areas where there is a chronic shortage of affordable housing. We know that NHS could save around £60 million a year in preventative savings if investments were made in affordable housing, but does the cabinet secretary agree that, compared to England and Wales, we have inadequate data on the effectiveness of investment in housing to improve health? Does she agree that housing is a key health intervention for many people? Aileen Campbell Absolutely. That is why I continue to work with my colleague Kevin Stewart because of the real impact that good-quality housing has on health outcomes and in helping to reduce health and social inequalities. That is why the Government has invested considerably in housing over the past parliamentary term. Over 33,000 affordable homes were delivered, 22,000 for social rent. The ambitions continue, with more money being put in to ensure that we can achieve our desire to reach 50,000 affordable homes over the lifetime of this Parliament, a 76 per cent increase on our previous five-year investment. The Government takes housing incredibly important because of the allied health benefits and associated ways in which it can help us to tackle inequality. I am happy to engage with the member further, but I know that the Government and myself, and Kevin Stewart, remain committed to ensuring that we can create a healthier Scotland and a fairer Scotland by ensuring that we continue to meet those ambitious targets that we have set and which are being delivered on. Llyr Lyfton Jackson To ask the Scottish Government when the health secretary last met with the chief executive of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and what issues were discussed. Shona Robison Ministers and Government officials meet regularly with representatives of all boards, including NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, to discuss matters of importance to local people. Jackson Carlaw With local authority and new local plans, local authorities very often resolve new housing demands with the provision of major new estates. However, councils themselves can provide for future education needs, but community healthcare partnerships have to try and anticipate future health provision with GP services. Is the cabinet secretary satisfied that the process underpinning that is sufficiently robust and well resourced, particularly where a major new estate is created, and when the existing lists within GPs are at full capacity, as is currently the case in a particular example within my own eastward constituency? Shona Robison I think that the member makes an important point. The fact that we now have the health and care partnerships working across health and social care, bringing in a housing element to those discussions as well, I think that there is the need to make sure that when new house building is taking place, that the local services that are required to provide those services, including health services and primary care services, to those residents, is taken into account when looking at future planning. We would expect our partners to be doing that. If there is more that we can do in that space to make sure that that is done at an early enough time, because he will appreciate expanding at any health services takes time, and there can sometimes be a mismatch with the planning process and the house building process. I am happy to communicate further with Jackson Carlaw on that matter, if he would find that helpful. 12. Clare Baker To ask the Scottish Government what assistance it can provide to Cydian Beath FC with its club 1C5 campaign on or the past ensure a future that aims to secure the future of the club. I am aware of the good work that is being carried out in support of Cydian Beath's club 1C5 campaign. I know that the club has strong and deep roots, now dating back more than 135 years in the town. Like many football clubs at all levels in Scotland, Cydian Beath is an important part of the local community, and I am encouraged by the spirit that is shown by both the club supporters and the wider community to raise £135,000 to help to build a sustainable future. I have instructed my officials to contact the club directly to discuss the campaign in more detail. Clare Baker As the minister recognises, the club is 137 years old, and it is important to the local community, but the club no longer has the large mining community that it used to have for its support. The rent from the weekly market and stock cars no longer come to the club as it lost its ownership of Central Park. An emergency general meeting and a public meeting had to be cancelled because of the snow, but the club is clearly in a mode of fighting for survival. I welcome the minister's commitment that officials will contact the club. Will she also join me in calling for locals and football lovers in the world all over to help to save the club? Aileen Campbell I am happy to lend my name to that call for people to get behind the club's campaign. Fans and are the lifeblood of Scottish football, and if anyone can make the difference to the club, I know that it will be the club's supporters. I am happy to continue to meet the member on the back of our officials' meeting with the Cowdenbeath Football Club and to do what we can to raise awareness of the efforts of the supporters. Ruth Davidson That concludes general questions. Although I still have half a minute left, can I say something about the slot? Presiding officers, try very hard to give a balance when we are doing portfolio questions in terms of supplementaries. I have seen a few grumpy faces around the chamber this afternoon. However, there has also got to be a respect for those who have questions submitted and have taken time with their supplementary questions, so that has to be borne in mind as well. Also to be borne in mind, when people take far too long, it does mean that we cannot take some of their colleagues. I would ask ministers to reflect on that as well in relation to their answers. Give a couple of moments for people to get themselves settled.