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 its position is on the findings of the research paper, Scottish adolescents’ sun-related behaviours, tanning attitudes and associations with skin cancer awareness: a cross-sectional study, that (a) "urgent action is required to promote positive sun-related behaviour and increase skin cancer awareness among Scottish adolescents" and (b) "further research is needed to inform the development of effective sunsafe interventions."
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking that will help address the recommendations in The Employment Journey: A Fresh Perspective to Employment in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has considered the policy advice in The Employment Journey: A Fresh Perspective to Employment in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to improve transport links for patients and their families between East Renfrewshire and the Southern General Hospital.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to implement the recommendations in the final report of the Commission for Developing Scotland’s Young Workforce.
To ask the Scottish Government whether legal staff with expertise in employment law are employed in the Scottish Police Authority.
To ask the Scottish Government how much public money has been used to fund the services of a QC to resolve a wages dispute on behalf of the Scottish Police Authority.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether it is an appropriate use of public funds for the Scottish Police Authority to employ the services of a QC in a staff wages dispute and what its reasons are for its position on this matter.
To ask the Scottish Government what training opportunities there are for midwives to gain specialist experience in bereavement care.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact on recruitment and training of the closure of the Glasgow Caledonian, Dundee and Stirling midwifery schools.