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-29616
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 18 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many communications have been received by the NHS Scotland confidential alert line in each month since it was established.
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Question reference: S5W-29621
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 18 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to issue guidance that cyclists and runners should wear protective face coverings when sharing space with pedestrians.
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Question reference: S5W-29630
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 18 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many drug-related deaths there have been during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Question reference: S5W-29617
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 18 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government which cancer screening lab teams have not been used during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Question reference: S5W-29570
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 18 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that the incidence of young people misusing nitrous oxide is increasing; what action it is taking to educate them about the dangers of this, and how it plans to tackle the suppliers.
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Question reference: S5W-29575
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 18 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many Do Not Resuscitate forms have been issued to patients in each month since January 2016.
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Question reference: S5W-29734
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 18 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what provision is currently in place for children and young people with a learning disability who require inpatient psychiatric care.
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Question reference: S5W-29732
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 18 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made in establishing a specialist adolescent learning disability CAMHS unit in NHS Lothian.
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Question reference: S5W-29733
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 18 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made in adapting and up-skilling the National Child Psychiatry Inpatient Unit at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde so that children with all degrees of learning disability can access inpatient care.
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Question reference: S5W-29735
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 18 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when a national clinical network will be in place to support development of the National Child Psychiatry Inpatient Unit and community services, linking with multiagency partners across Scotland.