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-12574
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 09 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-11972 by Shona Robison on 1 November 2017, whether it plans to review the CEL 12 (2012) in light of the suggestion in the Hospice UK report, The role of hospice care in Scotland, that the average statutory contribution to the costs of running adult hospices is 39%.
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Question reference: S5W-12636
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what contact it has had with the UK Government and the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) regarding the MHRA’s forthcoming report, Hormonal pregnancy tests (including Primodos) and possible association with birth defects, and whether it plans to have discussions with UK ministers about the findings.
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Question reference: S5W-12659
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 21 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve access in communities to specialist mother and baby units that offer mental health support.
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Question reference: S5W-12656
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 21 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to increase the number of nurses in mental health facilities who have specialist training in dealing with postnatal mental health conditions.
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Question reference: S5W-12657
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 21 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to improve the support available to treat postnatal (a) depression and (b) psychosis.
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Question reference: S5W-12499
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-05822 by Shona Robison on 13 January 2017, whether it will provide the figures for 2016-17.
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Question reference: S5W-12473
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 21 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it (a) has conducted or (b) plans to conduct a full public consultation on its Vaccination Transformation Programme.
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Question reference: S5W-12475
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 21 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, when responsibility for vaccinations is transferred from general practice, how it anticipates immunisation teams will operate in remote, rural and island communities, and how it will ensure that this provides value for money.
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Question reference: S5W-12476
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 21 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to concerns that the transfer from general practice of responsibility for vaccinations may decrease flu immunisation rates by reducing the incidence of opportunistic immunisation when patients attend GP surgeries for other reasons.
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Question reference: S5W-12477
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 21 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether GP practices that wish to bid to provide immunisation programmes in their area will be able to do so under the Vaccination Transformation Programme.
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