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-01860
- 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 how many patients who were detained on the basis of an emergency detention certificate were subsequently detained under a short-term detention certificate in the last year for which information is available.
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Question reference: S5W-01851
- 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 how many meetings of mental health tribunals there were in the last year for which information is available.
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Question reference: S5W-01852
- 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 how many patients were placed on a compulsory treatment order without the agreement of a tribunal in the last year for which information is available.
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Question reference: S5W-01859
- 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 how much was spent on mental health tribunals in the last year for which information is available.
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Question reference: S5W-01857
- 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 at its first consideration of a patient's appeal agreed that the patient should no longer be subject to compulsory measures in the last year for which information is available.
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Question reference: S5W-01864
- 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 how many people were detained on the basis of a short-term detention certificate in the last year for which information is available.
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Question reference: S5W-01664
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to improve (a) road safety on and (b) the surface of the (i) A702 and (ii) A71.
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Question reference: S5W-01668
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 24 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many phone calls have been received each year by Breathing Space.
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Question reference: S5W-01666
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 24 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish an updated suicide prevention strategy.
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Question reference: S5W-01652
- 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 24 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many cancer patients have been offered cryopreservation of (a) eggs, (b) sperm and (c) embryos in each year since 1999, and whether it plans to extend this.