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-23825
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 9 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve the accessibility of ovarian cancer surgery, in light of reports from women who have had to travel to England for treatment.
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Question reference: S6W-23783
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by George Adam on 8 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has undertaken a security risk assessment regarding cabinet secretaries and ministers using personal phones and electronic devices to conduct government business.
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Question reference: S6W-23818
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 8 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what efforts are being made to reduce neurology waiting times, in light of reports that some patients are experiencing waiting times of 45 weeks.
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Question reference: S6W-24048
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 8 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to support children and young people who are currently living with long COVID and are unable to participate in school due to their symptoms.
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Question reference: S6W-23817
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 8 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that hospital neurology appointment waiting times are currently sitting at 45 weeks or more.
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Question reference: S6W-23135
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 5 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reported concerns in the Scottish Stoma Forum Specialist Nurse and Patient Survey Briefing 2023 that recommendations from NHS Scotland in its 2016 and 2020 stoma care reports have not been taken forward.
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Question reference: S6W-23134
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 4 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that patients are experiencing challenges in the dispensing of stoma care prescriptions, according to the Scottish Stoma Forum Specialist Nurse and Patient Survey Briefing 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-24044
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 4 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide new funding for long COVID research in its Budget for 2024-25.
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Question reference: S6W-23895
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 4 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what support it will offer the charitable hospice sector to address the reported £16 million funding deficit that it is facing as a result of pay and inflationary pressures.
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Question reference: S6W-23897
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 4 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reported concerns that if the charitable hospice sector is unable to match NHS pay awards, nurses and hospice staff will leave the sector in search of better pay.