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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government what advice it has given to care homes on the care of people with dementia who are unable to understand the current lockdown rules.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will review its advice on PPE for care homes to offer greater protection to staff and residents.
To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government will follow the STUC’s suggested red lines when easing lockdown restrictions to ensure the safety of workers.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of the correspondence that it has received from manufacturers to deliver (a) ventilators, (b) personal protective equipment (PPE) and (c) other items to assist in the response to the COVID-19 outbreak, and how many of these offers have been (i) accepted and (ii) rejected, broken down by the reason for rejection.
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to measure the uptake of business support schemes offered during the COVID-19 outbreak; whether it will publish this information, and, if so, how often.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to introduce a similar lending facility for larger enterprises to that introduced by the Bank of England, which seeks to help support liquidity among larger firms by bridging COVID-19 disruption to their cash flows through loans.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak on its legislative programme, when it now expects to introduce the Continuity (Scotland) Bill, and what impact any delay will have on whether the necessary EU exit preparations relating to environmental principles and governance will be completed by the end of the transition period in December 2020.
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to encourage companies to apply for the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme to ensure that Scotland does not see an increase in unnecessary redundancies.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-27450 by Michael Matheson on 5 March 2020, how it calculated the 10-minute figure.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the development of the new aluminium factory in Fort William, including how much financial assistance (a) it and (b) Highlands and Islands Enterprise has contributed to the project to date.