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-21604
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 12 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how much it estimates has been spent on preventative health in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S5W-21801
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 11 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the outcome was of its call for views on the review of the Charter of Patient Rights and Responsibilities, which concluded in September 2017.
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Question reference: S5W-21597
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 11 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on what the average number of patients per GP has been in each practice in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S5W-21798
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 8 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government which health and social care organisations it has met to discuss the proposed workplace parking levy.
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Question reference: S5W-21796
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 8 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) care homes and (b) hospices will be subject to the proposed workplace parking levy.
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Question reference: S5W-21526
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 7 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-17457 by John Swinney on 17 July 2018, whether it will provide the same information for 2017-18.
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Question reference: S5W-21802
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-19321 by Joe Fitzpatrick on 6 November 2018, whether the information has now been collated and assessed and, if so, (a) by what date it will be published and (b) whether it will show how many (i) sessions and (ii) hours each profession in a team provides to the pain service each week.
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Question reference: S5W-21594
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been referred to residential rehabilitation for drug or alcohol misuse in each year since 1999, and how much these referrals cost.
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Question reference: S5W-21596
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time has been for accessing residential rehabilitation for drug or alcohol misuse in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S5W-21799
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when the Charter of Patient Rights and Responsibilities was last updated.
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