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-08933
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 17 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will introduce a dedicated elective recovery plan to tackle the reported backlog of patients waiting to receive elective surgery.
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Question reference: S6W-08929
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 17 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what guidance is given to GP services about in-person visits for patients with non-respiratory illnesses such as melanoma and other skin cancers.
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Question reference: S6W-08931
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 17 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what guidance it will provide to prevent any delayed diagnosis of skin cancers if telephone consultations become the norm for GP services as the country emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Question reference: S6W-08937
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 17 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what support people who are waiting for joint replacement surgery can access (a) before and (b) after their operation.
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Question reference: S6W-08932
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 17 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what it will do to address reports that elective surgeries account for 30% of all NHS waiting lists in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-09009
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 15 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether the removal of £489 million from the Scottish Water budget in the Resource Spending Review will have any impact on water charges for customers.
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Question reference: S6W-09008
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 15 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason £97 million has been removed from the Scottish Water budget in 2022-23, and then £98 million in each of the next four years, in the Resource Spending Review.
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Question reference: S6W-08913
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 15 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of current projections for the rate of inflation, when it plans to increase the level of the Water Charges Reduction Scheme in order to protect people on the lowest incomes from any effect of high inflation on the amount that they pay each year in water charges.
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Question reference: S6W-08909
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 15 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what accounting provision Scottish Water has made for bad debt in each of the last 10 financial years.
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Question reference: S6W-08911
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 15 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how it calculates the average water charge in (a) Scotland and (b) England that it uses for comparative purposes.
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