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.
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To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answers to questions S4W-00960 and S4W-04842 by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 June 2011 and 18 January 2012 respectively, what evidence it is collecting to monitor the implementation of guidance CMO (2012) 1 - Guidance to Further Strengthen the Safe and Effective Use of New Medicines across the NHS in Scotland and how it will ensure consistency across NHS boards if information on individual patient treatment requests is not held centrally.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider implementing a time limit between the pre-application consultation and the submission of the formal planning application for major developments.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider limiting the number of pre-application (a) notifications and (b) consultations that a developer can propose.
To ask the Scottish Executive what action it can take to protect communities from proposed developments that they consider to be unnecessary.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will consider having a specialist clinician review individual patient treatment requests for the provision of the drug, eculizumab.
To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost will be to local authorities of plans to reduce empty property rate relief on commercial property.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many local government buildings qualify for empty property rate relief.
To ask the Scottish Executive how much empty property rate relief on commercial property is worth to local authorities.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has carried out an impact assessment on its plans to reduce empty property rate relief on commercial property.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will accept a request from the Educational Institute of Scotland (EIS) to engage with teachers on a possible redesign of the Scottish Teachers' Superannuation Scheme.