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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

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 30 November 2024
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Question reference: S3W-30655

  • Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 January 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 26 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executivewhat feedback it has had from (a) individual NHS boards, (b) the Difficult Decisions Short Life Working Group and (c) other stakeholders on the draft policy framework for the introduction and availability of new medicines in the NHS.

Question reference: S3W-30661

  • Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 January 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 26 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the letter to the Public Petitions Committee from the Deputy Director of the Scottish Government’s Healthcare Policy and Strategy Directorate on 27 July 2009, when a national network of Exceptional Prescribing Leads and Chairs of Area Drug and Therapeutics Committees will be established.

Question reference: S3W-30656

  • Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 January 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 26 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the letter to the Public Petitions Committee from the Deputy Director of the Scottish Government’s Healthcare Policy and Strategy Directorate on 27 July 2009, what other stakeholders it has consulted on the draft policy framework for the introduction and availability of new medicines in the NHS.

Question reference: S3W-30659

  • Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 January 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 26 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of the extent to which NHS boards have made information about local arrangements for the introduction and availability of medicines available to patients.

Question reference: S3W-30657

  • Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 January 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 26 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executivehow it will monitor implementation of the arrangements set out in its final policy framework for the introduction and availability of new medicines in the NHS.

Question reference: S3W-30663

  • Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 January 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what assessment it has made of variations in access to medicines across Scotland.

Question reference: S3W-30666

  • Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 January 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 20 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason the auditing of cancer standards is performed by those engaged in the clinical practice and not by an independent auditor.

Question reference: S3W-30665

  • Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 January 2010
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 20 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the reason is for the time delay since the last publication of an evaluation of performance against clinical standards for cancer.

Question reference: S3W-29957

  • Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 10 December 2009
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 13 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost is to (a) the health budget and (b) each NHS board’s budget of the Chancellor of the Exchequer’s decision to increase employers’ national insurance contributions from 2011.

Question reference: S3W-29990

  • Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West of Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 10 December 2009
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 13 January 2010

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S3W-28836 by Nicola Sturgeon on 23 November 2009, what the average waiting time was at each accident and emergency department in NHS (a) Greater Glasgow and Clyde and (b) Ayrshire and Arran in each year since 1999.