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-02363
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 12 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to raise awareness of foetal alcohol spectrum disorders.
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Question reference: S5W-02105
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 12 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-01490 by Aileen Campbell on 26 July 2016, to what factors it attributes the decline in care home places since 2000, and what its position is on this matter.
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Question reference: S5W-02031
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 9 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recent announcement by the UK Government, whether it plans to cap the salary of its special advisers.
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Question reference: S5W-01938
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a full breakdown of the cost to NHS Grampian of the suspensions of Professor Zygmunt Krukowski and Doctor Wendy Craig.
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Question reference: S5O-00131
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 September 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve the quality of urban broadband.
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Question reference: S5W-02017
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 7 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it will announce its decision regarding the future of the Edinburgh cleft lip and palate surgical service.
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Question reference: S5W-01869
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 7 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many people were given electroconvulsive therapy against their will in the last year for which information is available.
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Question reference: S5W-01856
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 7 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many people were detained on the basis of an emergency detention certificate issued by a GP in the last year for which information is available.
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Question reference: S5W-01936
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 7 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action it takes to ensure that there is suitable aftercare available for patients with alcoholic liver disease following acute hospital treatment, and what its response is to the reported concerns that this is not being made readily available.
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Question reference: S5W-01937
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 7 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to remove the barriers that prevent patients from Scotland being able to access addiction Tier 4 facilities in the (a) rest of the UK and (b) European Economic Area.