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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

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Question reference: S5O-00122

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S5O-00093

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government when the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Constitution last met the Treasury and what was discussed.

Question reference: S4O-05712

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 March 2016
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 March 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making with a city deal for Dundee.

Question reference: S4W-29915

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 26 February 2016

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider introducing waiting time targets for hepatitis C treatment.

Patients with hepatitis C who require acute hospital care are covered by the acute hospital waiting time standards and guarantee such as the first outpatient consultation 12 weeks standard and the 12 weeks legal guarantee for inpatient and day cases. Within these waiting time standards and guarantee the timing of individual appointments will be based upon clinical need with those patients with a more urgent need being seen more quickly.

Question reference: S4W-29914

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 23 February 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made in implementing the commitment in Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Framework 2015–2020 Update to evaluate the potential effectiveness of a population-based case-finding approach to screening for hepatitis C.

Since the publication of the Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Framework Update at the start of September 2015, Health Protection Scotland, in partnership with the viral hepatitis clinical leads, has been giving consideration to a range of issues in relation to diagnosis and case-finding. The work to respond to the Penrose Inquiry on the diagnosis and testing of individuals with infected blood, which is being taken forward by a short-life working group, is also relevant to this work. That group will report later in 2016, and will inform the work to evaluate population-based case-finding approaches.

Question reference: S4W-29916

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 23 February 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing to NHS boards to ensure that new, interferon-free treatment is made available to people with hepatitis C.

The costs of new antiviral therapies for hepatitis C is supported by the £28 million funding the Scottish Government provides under the Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Framework. NHS boards can determine how best to use that funding, and funding from their own core budgets, to reflect local need. However, under the framework boards are set an annual treatment target for hepatitis C. During 2015-20 the aim is for at least 1,500 people per year will be initiated onto antiviral therapy.

Question reference: S4W-29917

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 11 February 2016
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 23 February 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with NHS boards regarding its stated commitment in Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Framework 2015–2020 Update, to the elimination of hepatitis C as a public health concern.

Question reference: S4O-05584

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 February 2016
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 February 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making on securing decommissioning jobs for Dundee.

Question reference: S4F-03226

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 08 February 2016
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 February 2016

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's position is on Douglas-Westwood's forecast for North Sea decommissioning until 2040.

Question reference: S4O-05523

Asked by: Jenny Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 January 2016
Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 3 February 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Dundee City Council about youth unemployment.