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: S5W-28354
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 April 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 4 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many tests for COVID-19 have been carried out each day, and when testing started.
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Question reference: S5W-28666
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 April 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 4 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what action it has been taking to tackle scams since the announcement in the 2019 Programme for Government of a scams prevention strategy; whether it is on track to publish this strategy before September 2020, and what estimate it has made of the scale in any increase of scams during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Question reference: S5W-28550
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 April 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 30 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) road and (b) rail infrastructure projects are planned for 2020-21, and whether the start dates will be reviewed to bring forward spending.
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Question reference: S5W-28356
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 April 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 30 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how much in Barnett consequentials it has allocated to each ministerial portfolio to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Question reference: S5W-28093
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 March 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 29 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to care for vulnerable people who are self-isolating in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Question reference: S5W-28543
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 April 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 29 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether there will be a review of the death certificates for all people who have died in care homes during the COVID-19 outbreak to ensure that all causes of death are listed.
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Question reference: S5W-28549
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 April 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 28 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what major housing developments are planned for 2020-21, and whether the start dates will be reviewed to bring forward spending.
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Question reference: S5W-28096
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 March 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 24 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that students who have a lack of access to patients receive adequate training to become junior doctors while this is being fast-tracked in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Question reference: S5W-28094
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 March 2020
- Current Status: Holding Answer by Jeane Freeman on 23 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what action is being taken to further "flatten the curve" during lockdown in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Question reference: S5W-28095
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 March 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 23 April 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how it is aiming to reduce baseline demand for non-COVID-19 hospital admissions.