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-01946
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 7 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will set up a national commission to look at the changes required to establish a system of social care that lives up to Scotland’s social justice and human rights ambitions.
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Question reference: S5W-01739
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 25 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to facilitate consistent access to the Duchenne muscular dystrophy treatment, ataluren (Translarna), through NHS boards and the peer approved clinical system for ultra-orphan medicines.
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Question reference: S5W-01743
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government when the next meeting of its stakeholder review group on appropriate hospice and respite facilities for young disabled adults is taking place.
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Question reference: S5W-01741
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 24 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to improve specialist respiratory support for people with muscular dystrophy and neuromuscular conditions.
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Question reference: S5W-01742
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to reduce any delays in setting up a care package after a hospital admission.
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Question reference: S5W-01740
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 24 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the provision in Scotland of hydrotherapy pools for people with muscular dystrophy and neuromuscular conditions.
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Question reference: S5W-01761
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 23 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government on the basis of what scientific evidence it has set a date for eligibility for meningitis B vaccine.
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Question reference: S5W-01762
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 23 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government in what circumstances a child born before 1 July 2015 would qualify for the meningitis B vaccine.
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Question reference: S5W-01760
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 23 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether meningitis B vaccines are available to children born before 1 July 2015 and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
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Question reference: S5W-01677
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 23 August 2016
To ask Scottish Government how many wind farm applications, which have been determined as a result of the project being either close to, or inside, an area of wild land under both section 36 of the Electricity Act 1989 and the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997, have been (a) consented and (b) refused since the wild land map was published in June 2014.
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