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 Government what plans it has to assess Tier 4 child and adolescent mental health services.
To ask the Scottish Government how much it would cost to extend free personal care to people under 65 with Alzheimer’s or dementia.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it took to increase the level of completions for (a) social housing, (b) housing association properties and (c) affordable housing in 2014, and for what reason the number of completions was smaller than in 2013.
To ask the Scottish Government how much it will allocate in the 2015-16 draft Budget to socially-rented housing, and what its position is on the evidence submitted to the Infrastructure and Capital Investment Committee by Shelter Scotland, which recommended that at least £200 million in addition to the already allocated budget should be committed toward this.
To ask the Scottish Government how many socially-rented homes it plans to build each year, and what its position is on the comment by Shelter Scotland that "at least 10,000 new homes for social rent need to be built each year to start meaningfully to tackle Scotland's housing crisis".
To ask the Scottish Government how many applications were made to educational psychology courses in Scotland in each year between 2010 and 2014 and how many people took up the course, broken down by institution.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on extending free personal care to people under 65 who have Alzheimer’s or dementia.
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) educational and (b) clinical psychologist posts there were in each year between 2010 and 2014.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-04069 by Maureen Watt on 4 March 2015 (Official Report, c.12), in light of the minister's comment that "there are no plans to close the CIC [Glasgow Centre for Integrative Care], which we see as having a role for patients across Scotland”, what its position is on NHS Lanarkshire's decision to no longer refer patients to the centre from April 2015, and whether it will ask the board to review its decision.
To ask the Scottish Government what rail investment plans it has for South Scotland.