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 discussions it has had with the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) about the consideration of practice-based evidence for psychological therapies in the production of its clinical guidelines.
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) about the range of evidence it considers when developing clinical guidelines for the treatment of (a) mental health conditions, (b) depression and (c) anxiety.
To ask the Scottish Government what role it considers practice-based evidence for psychological therapies can play in the production of Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) clinical guidelines.
To ask the Scottish Government when it will next meet the Consul General of China and whether it will raise at the meeting concerns about the annual Yulin dog-meat festival in the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region.
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the Maritime and Coastguard Agency regarding the consultation on the sulphur content of marine fuel; whether it made a submission to the consultation and, if so, whether it will publish this.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is carrying out further modelling work on the impact of air passenger duty on Glasgow Prestwick Airport and, if so, when it will be complete and when the stage 2 business plan will be published.
To ask the Scottish Government what the average time is for the Scottish Medicines Consortium to reach a decision on whether to approve a medicine for use following consideration through the Patient and Clinician Engagement process.
To ask the Scottish Government how many incidents of self-harm involving people aged (a) under 18, (b) 18 to 34, (c) 35 to 59 and (d) 60 and over there have been in each of the three last years, broken down by NHS board.
To ask the Scottish Government how many medicines for treating (a) cancer and (b) other conditions the Scottish Medicines Consortium has considered in each of the last four years, and how many were subsequently (i) approved and (ii) not recommended for use.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the comment in the Scottish Medicines Consortium's (SMC) June 2014 briefing note that the cancer treatment drug, Abraxane, "offered a substantial improvement in life expectancy", what its position is on the SMC's decision not to recommend it for use.