Questions and answers
Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for MSPs to get factual and statistical information.
- Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
- Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber
Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.
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Question reference: S6W-05513
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 06 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether the current ScotRail franchise agreement requires it to run class 43 HSTs sets on its services between Edinburgh and Aberdeen; if it is not a franchise requirement, what the expectation is; how frequent these services are required to be, in terms of departures from (a) Edinburgh and (b) Aberdeen; what the breakdown of class of sets on services from (i) Aberdeen to Edinburgh and (ii) Edinburgh to Aberdeen has been since November 2021, and, in any instances since November 2021 where train sets on this route have not been class 43 HSTs, for what reason this has been the case.
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Question reference: S6W-05467
- Asked by: Paul McLennan, MSP for East Lothian, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to include any new national parks as a national development in the forthcoming National Planning Framework 4, in light of the national spatial strategy, which is set out in the draft framework.
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Question reference: S6W-05559
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will reduce the target time for a brain scan in the event of stroke to less than 12 hours.
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Question reference: S6W-05512
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 06 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) service levels and (b) types of train sets ScotRail is required to run between Aberdeen and the central belt under the current franchise agreement, and whether this will change following it coming under direct state control from March 2022.
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Question reference: S6W-05551
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 06 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce the waiting time for an echocardiogram to six weeks, in light of European standards reportedly stating that asymptomatic patients must be referred for an echocardiogram within this timescale.
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Question reference: S6W-05557
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether standards for stroke care extend to rehabilitation, and, if not, what proposals are in place to monitor the whole stroke pathway.
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Question reference: S6W-05730
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 14 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to undertake a review of COVID-19 working practices in social care settings.
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Question reference: S6W-05469
- Asked by: Paul McLennan, MSP for East Lothian, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how the concepts of progressive land use and progressive development, as referred to in its shared policy programme with the Scottish Green Party regarding the designation of new national parks, relate to sustainable land use and sustainable development.
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Question reference: S6W-05544
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the Heart Disease Action Plan 2021 does not include more detailed information on heart valve disease.
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Question reference: S6W-05562
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is implementing the European Stroke Organisation's Action Plan for Stroke in Europe 2018–2030, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
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