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 the bursary for student nurses has been in each year since 2010.
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) inpatients in mental health hospitals, (b) people in young offender institutions and (c) prisoners have learning difficulties.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the report by Unison that 83% of student nurses and midwives have been in debt in the last year.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the recent data that shows that, in the last year, the number of people waiting more than six weeks for key clinical tests more than doubled.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its review of the pet vending trade including exotic animals.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide further details of how the £85 million to improve mental health services that it announced on 24 May 2015 will be allocated and how much of it will be spent on child and adolescent mental health services.
To ask the Scottish Government how many people under 18 were admitted to hospital for eating disorders and eating disorder-related conditions in each of the last five years, broken down by age.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the reported 89% increase between 2011 and 2014 in the number of teenagers admitted to hospitals across the UK for eating disorders.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to increase education and awareness among (a) under-18s and (b) the general population of the health risks of eating disorders.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the recent data that shows that, in the 12 months to March 2015, the number of people waiting more than six weeks for a CT scan increased almost tenfold.