Questions and answers
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.
- Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
- Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber
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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Question reference: S5W-32427
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many complaints it has received regarding do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders in each month since April 2019.
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Question reference: S5W-33936
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 23 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when it made the decision to add the imminence of Christmas as a factor in determining COVID-19 restriction levels for local authorities; what modelling it did regarding the imminence of Christmas in each area, and whether it will publish this.
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Question reference: S5W-33905
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 22 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether some betting shops have been excluded from receiving COVID-19 (a) rates relief and (b) small business grants and, if so, (a) for what reason and (b) what funding support it will make available to such businesses.
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Question reference: S5W-33904
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 22 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to concerns that betting shops were not added to the specific categories of businesses entitled to COVID-19-related economic support, in light of other business types being specified, and for what reasons it made this decision.
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Question reference: S5W-33869
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 07 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 18 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-33520 by Michael Matheson on 4 December 2020, what correspondence it has had with the City of Edinburgh Council regarding the issues raised in correspondence on the Spaces for People initiative.
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Question reference: S5O-04881
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what impact any reduction in residential drug rehabilitation treatments has had on recovery rates and the level of drug-related deaths.
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Question reference: S5W-33518
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 16 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-32418 by Jeane Freeman on 23 October 2020, when a decision on funding for a new Edinburgh Cancer Centre will be made.
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Question reference: S5W-33479
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 16 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-32056 by Jeane Freeman on 25 September 2020, what discussions are taking place regarding free hospital parking after January 2021.
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Question reference: S5W-33584
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 14 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of its Programme for Government 2020-21 on 1 September 2020, and its plan to “reduce long-term reliance” on specialist treatments and reduce or stop opioids, whether it is in a position to identify the chronic pain specialist services and treatments that it considers “demonstrate limited health outcomes” so that patients can be informed, and what consultation it has had with patients on this.
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Question reference: S5W-33505
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many Hospedia contracts that had been agreed by each NHS board for the provision of bedside communication and entertainment for patients have been taken on directly by it since January 2020, and for what reasons, broken down by date, and what the average (a) length and (b) cost is of each of these contracts.