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-13533
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 January 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 16 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its health and social care national workforce strategy, whether it has established a programme of work to review and support public health workforce recruitment that addresses some of the current challenges.
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Question reference: S6W-13536
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 January 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 16 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has implemented its August 2021 Women’s Health Plan, which sets out a number of actions to support women working in the NHS.
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Question reference: S6W-13605
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 January 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 16 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish Health Protection Network strategic leads have developed an HIV transmission elimination proposal.
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Question reference: S6W-13511
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 16 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what work it has done to develop a further programme of work in relation to its paper, Public Health Leadership and Succession Planning in Scotland, which was published in June 2017.
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Question reference: S6W-13514
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 16 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has developed a menopause and menstrual health workplace policy for NHS Scotland as an example of best practice.
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Question reference: S6W-13525
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 16 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many pharmacist trainees have stayed in Scotland to complete their pre-registration training in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S6W-13428
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 16 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what research has been undertaken to ascertain whether minimum unit pricing has led to consumers to switch from lower strength, lower volume products to higher strength, higher volume products.
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Question reference: S6W-13466
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 16 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many community pharmacists have become independent prescribers via the National Clinical Skills for Pharmacists Programme in each year since the programme was founded.
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Question reference: S6W-13467
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 16 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what it has done to support the development of the pain management workforce.
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Question reference: S6W-13446
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 22 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 16 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what work has been undertaken to revisit the Specialist Public Health Workforce arrangements, taking into account learning from COVID-19, to support the renewal of the public health system.
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