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-13082
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 19 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many level 3 ambulance technicians there are; what training they receive, and what their duties are.
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Question reference: S5W-13091
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many paramedics it plans to recruit in 2017-18.
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Question reference: S5W-13112
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Clinical Review of Cancer Waiting Times will look at whether brain and central nervous system cancers should be included in future reports that measure the performance of cancer waiting times, and what its position is on including these.
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Question reference: S5W-13108
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how the Detect Cancer Early programme will raise awareness of less survivable cancers.
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Question reference: S5W-13110
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, to enable the highest number of people to participate, how it will reduce the gap between the period of cancer diagnosis and the date of the release of questionnaires for the next Scottish Cancer Patient Experience Survey.
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Question reference: S5W-13109
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of brain tumour patients have been diagnosed via an emergency admission in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S5W-13111
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider including the experience of people (a) under 16 and (b) with low-grade brain tumours in the next Scottish Cancer Patient Experience Survey.
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Question reference: S5O-01619
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce plastic waste in the marine environment.
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Question reference: S5W-13084
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many level 3 ambulance technicians were recruited in 2016-17, also broken down by how many were appointed to backfill places following the recruitment of other level 3 technicians to become new paramedics.
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Question reference: S5W-13083
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many new paramedics were recruited from the existing ambulance technician workforce in 2016-17.