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-11658
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 25 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government when the first meeting of the working group examining the implementation of free personal care for people under 65 (Frank’s law) will take place.
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Question reference: S5W-11669
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 24 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how much was raised each year by the Public Health Supplement Levy, and what this was spent on.
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Question reference: S5W-11837
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 October 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason Health Protection Scotland publishes data on laboratory reports of norovirus for the latest four weeks only; whether the information for earlier weeks is publically available and, if not, whether it will publish the information for each week since January 2012.
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Question reference: S5O-01351
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 October 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to encourage more people to carry out voluntary work in their communities.
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Question reference: S5W-11662
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 16 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have received screening for genetic cancers in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S5W-11518
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 16 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, as part of its contingency planning for a similar event in Scotland this winter, what assessment it has made of the recent influenza outbreak in Australia.
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Question reference: S5W-11671
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 13 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many under-eight-year-olds have had their stomach pumped in each year since 1999, broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) age.
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Question reference: S5W-11520
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 13 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to increase uptake rates for the influenza vaccine in each eligible group.
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Question reference: S5W-11621
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 13 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making with its proposal that immunisation programmes should be transferred from general practice, and what analysis it has carried out of how this transfer could impact on (a) overall vaccination rates and (b) tackling health inequalities (i) in (A) urban and (B) rural areas and (ii) among older or vulnerable people.
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Question reference: S5W-11653
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 12 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many applications by householders for grants to help adapt housing there have been in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority, and how many have been approved.
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