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-01774
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 25 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many extractions of deciduous teeth there have been on children (a) under one, (b) between one and two, (c) between two and three, (c) between three and four and (d) between four and five years of age in each year since 2000, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S5W-01865
- 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 25 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many people were detained on mental health grounds in hospital and at what cost in the last year for which information is available.
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Question reference: S5W-01867
- 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 25 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many people were subject to community-based compulsory treatment orders and at what cost in the last year for which information is available.
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Question reference: S5W-01870
- 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 25 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government in what proportion of cases non-consensual electroconvulsive therapy cured depression in the last year for which information is available.
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Question reference: S5W-01307
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 25 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time has been for babies to be seen by a cleft lip specialist in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S5W-01654
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 25 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many cases of food poisoning have been recorded in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S5W-01770
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how much has been paid to patients in clinical negligence payments in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S5W-01771
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to increase the number of children under the age of two registered with a dentist.
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Question reference: S5W-01772
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to make it compulsory to register children with a dentist.
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Question reference: S5W-01858
- 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 24 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government in how many cases a mental health tribunal's decision was contrary to the views of the patient's responsible medical officer in the last year for which information is available.