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-04476
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 November 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 2 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether applications to the Tenant Hardship Loan Fund can be made by tenants directly, or whether this is restricted to registered landlords only.
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Question reference: S6W-04343
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 November 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-03608 by Humza Yousaf on 8 November 2021, whether it will provide the information requested regarding how many NHS boards have currently suspended elective surgery, and, for each NHS board, (a) for how long has the surgery been suspended and (b) when the surgery will resume, and for what reason it did not provide this information in its response.
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Question reference: S6W-04482
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 November 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-03664 by Humza Yousaf on 18 October 2021, what its response is to reports that a significant number of GP surgeries in England are using outsourced remote services to provide phone and online consultations for their patients, and whether surgeries in Scotland will use outsourced remote services for such consultations.
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Question reference: S6W-04196
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 12 November 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 25 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the infrastructure required to meet the reported goal that three fifths of all new cars built by 2030 should be electric vehicles.
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Question reference: S6W-04197
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 12 November 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 25 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its plans are to address reported concerns about the accessibility for disabled people of existing electric car charging points.
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Question reference: S6W-04198
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 12 November 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 25 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it will embed accessible design standards into the future provision of electric car charging points.
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Question reference: S6W-02491
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 25 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide immediate additional funding to support health and social care partnerships in meeting the needs of their service users, including with the (a) hiring of additional temporary staff and (b) commissioning of additional third, independent and community sector care providers.
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Question reference: S6W-02492
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 25 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, in advance of the development of a national care service, whether it will provide additional funding for health and social care partnerships' recruitment campaigns, including to fund initiatives in attracting new staff that have been deemed successful in other sectors.
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Question reference: S6W-03980
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have received the COVID-19 booster vaccine six months after the initial course of the vaccine, as recommended by the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI).
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Question reference: S6W-03908
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many social care staff who are eligible for their COVID-19 booster vaccine have received this dose, and by what date all social care staff will have received their COVID-19 booster vaccine.
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