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-17128
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 2 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the average amount claimed was through the Young Patients Family Fund in 2022-23.
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Question reference: S6W-17326
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 2 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the question S6W-12111 by Humza Yousaf on 28 November 2022, whether it will provide an update on how many people who are awaiting inpatient appointments to access orthopaedic procedures have been waiting for over (a) two years, (b) two years and six months and (c) three years.
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Question reference: S6W-17329
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 2 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether the clinical portal has been rolled out across all NHS boards.
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Question reference: S6W-17328
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 2 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the latest expected opening dates are for each of the remaining National Treatment Centres, and what the most recent projected costs are for each.
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Question reference: S6W-16945
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 06 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 2 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its most recent assessment is of expanding the use of non-invasive liver scans in (a) primary and (b) community care to improve early detection of liver disease.
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Question reference: S6W-17108
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding its forthcoming 10-year cancer strategy, whether it will commit to producing a supplementary tailored action plan for increasing the survival rates of each of the six less survivable cancers, which are pancreatic, lung, liver, brain, stomach and oesophageal cancers.
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Question reference: S6W-17109
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether its new 10-year cancer strategy will include specific actions to address the survival rates of the six less survivable cancers, which are pancreatic, lung, liver, brain, stomach and oesophageal cancers.
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Question reference: S6W-17213
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 28 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether Marine Scotland funding for marine litter removal from the beach at the top of Loch Long, following storms, is still in place.
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Question reference: S6W-17330
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether any upgrades to the Community Health Index (CHI) system are planned.
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Question reference: S6W-17327
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has met its national targets to tackle long waits for planned care, as set out in July 2022.
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