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-17909
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 14 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what extra funding provision the new GP contract makes to assist GPs whose workloads may increase as a result of seeing an increasing number of overseas visitors.
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Question reference: S5W-17932
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-17676 by Jeane Freeman on 23 July 2018, what extra funding it will provide to dentists to undertake an Oral Health Risk Assessment for adult NHS patients.
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Question reference: S5W-17785
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 20 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 2 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure changing place toilets are available at hospitals in Lothian.
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Question reference: S5W-17707
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to increase awareness of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) among GPs and what support it will provide for their training in this regard.
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Question reference: S5W-17706
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what action it plans to take to improve support for patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN).
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Question reference: S5W-17704
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 31 July 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) clinical nurse specialists there have been in each year since 2007, also broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S5W-17705
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 31 July 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to increase the number of myeloproliferative neoplasms (MPN) clinical nurse specialists.
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Question reference: S5W-17567
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 June 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 23 July 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its announcement on 18 June 2018 of a new pathway for medicines, whether it plans to issue a formal consultation on the new standard operating procedure for the revised decision-making process for ultra-orphan medicines, and when it expects the new procedure to be published.
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Question reference: S5W-17675
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 23 July 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what the evidence base is behind the proposal in the Oral Health Improvement Plan to increase the interval between routine dental examinations for adults from six months to two years, and whether it has examined international best practice in relation to this proposed change.
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Question reference: S5W-17676
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 23 July 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that the proposal in the Oral Health Improvement Plan to increase the interval between routine dental examinations for adults from six months to two years will not reduce the rates of early detection of oral cancer, in light of the role of dentists in identifying it.
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