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-29736
- 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 steps are being taken to develop the full range of community child and adolescent mental health services for those with a learning disability.
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Question reference: S5O-04437
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 June 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take to minimise waiting times for delayed operations.
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Question reference: S5W-29609
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what the capacity is for carrying out tests at COVID-19 testing sites, as opposed to laboratory test processing capacity, broken down by (a) NHS Scotland (i) fixed and (ii) mobile testing sites and (b) UK Government (i) fixed and (ii) mobile testing sites.
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Question reference: S5W-29635
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 17 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what support has been provided during the COVID-19 outbreak to prisoners who are bi-polar prisoners, and what impact this has had on prison staff protocols.
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Question reference: S5W-29619
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions ministers have had to develop a long-term solution to providing free parking at NHS sites that have privately-owned car parks.
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Question reference: S5W-29634
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what the average time has been for people to receive COVID-19 results each day under the Test and Trace programme.
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Question reference: S5W-29494
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what risk assessment it carried out after it became aware of the COVID-19 outbreak at the 2020 Nike conference regarding the possibility of the disease spreading (a) in Edinburgh and (b) across Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-29406
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions ministers have had regarding DNR (do not resuscitate) forms being put in place for individual patients during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Question reference: S5W-29409
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many retired medics returning to support the NHS have been employed during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Question reference: S5W-29132
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to review the quality indicators in the Care Inspectorate document, A quality framework for care homes for older people, to ensure there is appropriate emphasis on infection control, and what its position is on whether the comment in the paper that “the primary purpose of the quality framework is to support services to self evaluate”, is sufficient to ensure the health and wellbeing of residents.
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