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 by which year it expects Scotland to have eradicated hepatitis C as a public health concern within the framework of its current annual hepatitis C treatment target.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-04930 by Maureen Watt on 10 December 2015 (Official Report, c. 5), what discussions it has had with the Hepatitis C Treatment and Therapies Group on reviewing the annual hepatitis C treatment target, and whether the group recommended revising the target upward.
To ask the Scottish Government what guidelines it has provided to NHS boards regarding levels of alcohol brief interventions.
To ask the Scottish Government how many alcohol brief interventions there have been in each year since 2010-11, broken down by NHS board.
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to introduce opt-out hepatitis C testing for all new prisoners in line with the Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Framework 2015-2012 Update and what the timescale is for implementation.
To ask the Scottish Government whether NHS boards (a) have the right to exceed and (b) are exceeding their individual hepatitis C treatment targets.
To ask the Scottish Government how many former NHS sites have been converted to social housing in each year since 2007-08, and how many housing units they have provided.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the finding in the report, Shifting the Curve, by the Independent Advisor on Poverty, that 47% of part-time couples with dependent children were in poverty in 2013-14, and what action it is taking in light of this.
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to convert NHS brownfield sites into residential housing.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on the percentage of NHS (a) brownfield and (b) greenfield sites that could be used for social housing.