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 First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to the Committee on Climate Change’s concerns that its spending on climate change is set to be reduced in 2016-17.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that more than one in four adults in Scotland who are responsible for paying rent or a mortgage are worried about covering the cost of their housing in 2016.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce the number of days that homeless families with children spend in temporary accommodation.
To ask the Scottish Government what guidance it provides to private landlords regarding improving energy efficiency in their properties, and whether it plans to update this.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that children in homeless households in Scotland spent one million days in temporary accommodation in 2015.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has carried out of the impact of homelessness on the mental health of children who live in temporary accommodation.
To ask the Scottish Government how many mental health inpatient deaths there have been in each year since 2007.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that 2,200 patients received mental health treatment outside their NHS board area in 2014-15.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on the types of mental health conditions that are prevalent in each category of the Scottish Government 6-fold Urban Rural Classification.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on the prevalence of mental ill-health broken down by (a) professional group and (b) category of the Scottish Government 6-fold Urban Rural Classification.