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
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Question reference: S5W-13466
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how much the Health & Care Experience Survey and its predecessor, the GP and Local NHS Services Patient Experience Survey, has cost and how many responses were received in each of the last ten years.
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Question reference: S5W-13255
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the development of six new elective treatment centres, which were announced in October 2015.
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Question reference: S5W-13567
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12864 by Shona Robison on 29 November 2017, in light of the consultation discussing options for reforming the way that professional regulators handle complaints from patients and the public, whether it plans to change the current arrangement, in which NHS boards investigate complaints addressed to themselves first before considering the possible involvement of professional bodies, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
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Question reference: S5W-13568
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12864 by Shona Robison on 29 November 2017, in light of the consultation discussing whether there is scope for achieving a more inquisitorial approach within the existing arrangements with regard to practice investigations and calling for further co-operation with employers to achieve local resolution at an earlier stage where possible, how this could be achieved.
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Question reference: S5W-13371
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when 24-hour paediatric inpatient services will be restored to St John's Hospital in Livingston.
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Question reference: S5W-13370
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the children's ward at St John's Hospital in Livingston was closed on (a) 3 and (b) 9 December 2017; what discussions it has had with NHS Lothian regarding this, and what action the board is taking to prevent any further such closure.
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Question reference: S5W-13545
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government which international classification of diseases (ICD) for oncology codes were used for brain tumours in the 2016 Scottish Cancer Patient Experience Survey.
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Question reference: S5W-13569
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12864 by Shona Robison on 29 November 2017, in light of the consultation discussing the need for "greater co-operation and data sharing between the professional regulators and other parts of the healthcare regulatory system" and highlighting the role of the Care Quality Commission as a system regulator, how this could be achieved, given that Scotland does not have a system regulator equivalent to the Care Quality Commission.
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Question reference: S5W-13600
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the children's ward at St John's Hospital in Livingston will reportedly close on 23, 24, 30 and 31 December 2017; what discussions it has had with NHS Lothian regarding this, and what action the board is taking to prevent any further such closures.
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Question reference: S5W-13630
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 9 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of all involvement by former or current special advisers in providing advice to (a) ministers and (b) officials on the use of transvaginal mesh implants.
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