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 recent data that shows that, in the 12 months to March 2015, the number of people waiting more than six weeks for an upper endoscopy test increased more than threefold.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reasons the performance of NHS boards against HEAT targets is down in the first quarter of 2015 compared with 2014 for the (a) 12-week to treatment and (b) 2-week maximum wait time for discharge.
To ask the Scottish Government what provisions there are specifically to treat people with eating disorders.
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent in each year since 2010 on supporting adults with learning difficulties who are inpatients in mental health hospitals, broken down by programme.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will adopt the aims of Enable Scotland's #stopthebus campaign.
To ask the Scottish Government what the average distance is from home for inpatients in mental health hospitals.
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent in each year since 2011 on (a) non-statutory organisations that work with children, (b) the PlayTalkRead campaign and (c) the provision of early learning and childcare for three and four-year-olds.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is planning to take follow-up actions if HEAT targets are not met and, if so, what actions.
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to introduce a statutory code of practice and adjudicator for pub companies.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to reconsider HEAT targets.