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-27604
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 10 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-21999 by John Swinney on 19 March 2019, whether it will provide the same information for 2018-19.
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Question reference: S5W-27668
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many cases of MRSA have been reported in each year since 1999, broken down by hospital.
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Question reference: S5T-02062
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 09 March 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the concerns raised by the former chair of NHS Lothian regarding the new Royal Hospital for Children and Young People.
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Question reference: S5W-27706
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 March 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 9 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment has been made of the number of unfilled consultant dermatologists posts in each NHS board.
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Question reference: S5W-27376
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 9 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-27060 by Jeane Freeman on 5 February 2020, what the findings have been from the stress audits carried out by NHS boards.
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Question reference: S5W-27661
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 9 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been removed from waiting lists after informing the NHS that they are undergoing treatment in the independent private sector in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S5W-27666
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 9 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what plans is has to develop a national NHS staff bank similar to that run by NHS Lothian.
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Question reference: S5W-27662
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 9 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many dermatologists each NHS board has employed in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S5W-27564
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 21 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 6 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to (a) expand stoma services and (b) increase the number of specialist stoma nurses in (i) NHS Lothian and (ii) Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-27400
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what evaluation it has carried out of its guidance, Caring for people in the last days and hours of life, and what changes it has made to this since publication in 2013.
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