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-19243
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 January 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 4 February 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the second supplementary to question S4O-02756 by Michael Russell on 8 January 2014 (Official Report, c. 26224), whether it will publish details of the "range of very special circumstances that would make the defence of objective justification entirely legitimate”.
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Question reference: S4W-19211
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 January 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 22 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what support and assistance it is giving to the Morayvia project at Kinloss Barracks.
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Question reference: S4W-19102
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 January 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 21 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking in response to the Announced Inspection Report - care for older people in acute hospitals: Balfour Hospital, NHS Orkney.
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Question reference: S4W-19104
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 January 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-18805 by Michael Russell on 7 January 2014, whether it will address the issue raised in the question.
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Question reference: S4W-19011
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 December 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 15 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to increase capacity and resources in the NHS in order to deliver the treatment time guarantee.
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Question reference: S4W-19010
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 December 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 15 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how many patients in each NHS board stated that they wished to be treated (a) by a named doctor and (b) at a specific hospital in 2011-12.
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Question reference: S4W-19008
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 December 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 15 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason (a) the treatment time guarantee is not being met and (b) performance against the standard that outpatients should be seen within 12 weeks has been deteriorating, as stated in the Audit Scotland report, Management of patients on NHS waiting lists.
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Question reference: S4W-19009
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 December 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 15 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what action patients can take if their legal right to treatment within 12 weeks has not been met.
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Question reference: S4W-18982
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 13 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-18165 by Michael Russell on 20 November 2013, how much it has paid each college to help mitigate the costs of the reclassification.
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Question reference: S4W-18851
- Asked by: Mary Scanlon, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 December 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 9 January 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what NHS facilities treat both mental health issues and addictions.
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