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: S4W-02868
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 5 October 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the (a) clinical and (b) social cost of not providing transcatheter aortic valve implantation treatment.
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Question reference: S4W-02597
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 September 2011
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 4 October 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what procedures are in place to prevent publicly limited companies avoiding the scrutiny of local authority commissioners' approved provider processes by purchasing companies that are trading or in administration.
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Question reference: S4W-02867
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 30 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the next meeting of the National Planning Forum will discuss the provision of transcatheter aortic valve implantation treatment.
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Question reference: S4W-02477
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-01248 by Michael Mathieson on 18 July 2011, why it has no plans to establish a living wage unit.
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Question reference: S4W-02393
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many children from Scotland have accessed the paediatric congenital heart service in the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S4W-02392
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to provide paediatric congenital heart services in Scotland.
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Question reference: S4W-02446
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the overtime budget for the Scottish Ambulance Service (a) was in each year since 2007-08 and (b) is expected to be in 2011-12.
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Question reference: S4W-02390
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the possible removal of paediatric congenital heart services from the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle, given that some children from Scotland access these services.
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Question reference: S4W-02453
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the response times were for ambulances in (a) Dumbarton, (b) Vale of Leven, (c) Helensburgh and (d) Rosneath Penisula in each month since April 2010, broken down by the (i) number of incidents, (ii) average response time and (iii) percentage of responses using category A and B response targets.
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Question reference: S4W-02389
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 27 September 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has had discussions with the Department of Health regarding their review of surgical services for children with congenital heart disease, given that some children from Scotland access these services in England and Wales.
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