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-26340
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 19 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6F-02948 by Humza Yousaf on 21 March 2024, whether it will confirm if it has any plans to restrict the use of puberty suppressing hormones for children.
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Question reference: S6W-26414
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 19 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with NHS Scotland regarding the use of puberty supressing hormones.
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Question reference: S6W-26415
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 19 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to propose a parliamentary debate on the use of puberty supressing hormones (PSH) in children, in light of NHS England's decision that PSH "are not available as a routine commissioning treatment option for treatment of children and young people who have gender incongruence / gender dysphoria".
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Question reference: S6W-26576
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 19 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of how many phone calls are made to the NHS 24 111 service because patients have been unable to secure an appointment with their own GP.
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Question reference: S6W-26573
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 18 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made to "co-ordinate and align strategies to market a career as an allied health professional across governmental, professional, and educational organisations including the sharing of resources, data and audiences", as recommended within the Allied Health Professions Education and Workforce Policy Review Recommendations, published on 24 February 2023
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Question reference: S6W-26299
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 18 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the value of youth work within the school environment.
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Question reference: S6W-26297
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 17 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many money advice workers have been employed in the most deprived communities in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S6W-26344
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 16 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what monitoring it undertakes of any third sector organisations that have been commissioned by NHS boards to provide health services.
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Question reference: S6W-26296
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 16 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what measurements it is currently using to assess its Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan.
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Question reference: S6W-26737
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 April 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 15 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-08992 by Humza Yousaf on 17 June 2022, what it has done to support NHS boards to test the introduction of models of care for long COVID, and how this has benefitted the management of other long-term and complex conditions, including Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME).
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