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
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Question reference: S6W-05779
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to reduce the reported inequality gap in diabetes-related health outcomes.
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Question reference: S6W-05780
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to address the reported increase in cases of people with diabetes.
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Question reference: S6W-05778
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many cases of diabetic ketoacidosis have been diagnosed and, of these, how many resulted in the death of the patient, in each year since 2017-18, and what its position is on whether there are any disparities in these data between disadvantaged and more affluent geographical areas.
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Question reference: S6W-05781
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what catch-up initiatives it is introducing to ensure that all diabetes patients receive their annual health check.
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Question reference: S6W-05724
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 14 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to undertake a review of financial decision-making within the social care sector since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, including (a) how public finances were used for social care, (b) the decision-making processes for resource allocation and (c) the impact that decisions have had on people accessing support.
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Question reference: S6W-05722
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 14 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what support is in place for people who live independently but who do not have the capacity to administer COVID-19 lateral flow tests themselves.
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Question reference: S6W-05532
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 06 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many retired medical professionals have returned to work in the NHS during the 2021-22 winter period.
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Question reference: S6W-05569
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing to businesses and the voluntary sector to support key services affected by the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
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Question reference: S6W-05681
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what the current ratio is of people who need stoma care to specialist stoma nurses in NHS Scotland, and what assessment it has made of how this compares with the ratio in the NHS elsewhere in the UK.
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Question reference: S6W-05678
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment has been made of how NHS Education for Scotland (NES) can work with the Scottish Stoma Nurse Forum to develop a framework of post-graduate educational and clinical preparation requirements for stoma care nurses, in line with the NES Career Development Framework and the Chief Nursing Officer Directorate's Transforming Roles Programme.