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 how many accident and emergency departments there are; at what hospitals; in which NHS board areas, and what size of population they serve.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on GPs using employers’ pension contributions that they receive as salary instead of NHS pension contributions.
To ask the Scottish Government what rules there are regarding GPs using employers’ pension contributions that they receive as salary instead of NHS pension contributions.
To ask the Scottish Government whether the additional £1 million for the emergency care action plan is embedded into long-term NHS plans and will be carried forward into subsequent financial years.
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that the National Planning Framework 3 will not result in significant adverse environmental effects.
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that there are effective links between the National Planning Framework 3, marine planning and the sustainable land use strategy.
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that the need for any national development is demonstrated before it is considered as a potential development in the National Planning Framework 3.
To ask the Scottish Government what statutory requirement exists to ensure that GP practice telephone numbers are not premium rate lines.
To ask the Scottish Government whether the candidates elected to the boards of NHS Fife and NHS Dumfries and Galloway in 2010 will continue to serve on the boards after their terms of office have expired in the event of direct elections not being continued.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on direct elections to NHS boards.