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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government when the (a) First Minister and (b) Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport first knew that discharging COVID-19-positive patients to care homes had restarted.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it anticipates single-use pencils will be used at polling station at the 2021 Scottish Parliament election and, if they will be, what it anticipates will be done after polling day with all the pencils that have been used.
To ask the Scottish Government how many press releases have been issued by or on behalf of the Minister for (a) Public Health, Sport and Wellbeing and (b) Minister for Older People and Equalities since 1 March 2020.
To ask the Scottish Government whether any of the COVID-19 legislation in place has repealed section 28 of the Carers (Scotland) Act 2016.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it is reportedly not following the World Health Organization (WHO) advice to test, trace and isolate every case of COVID-19.
To ask the Scottish Government whether knowingly discharging COVID-19-positive patients to care homes constitutes a breach of the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5T-02539 by Jeane Freeman on 24 November 2020 (Official Report, c.3), in light of the cabinet secretary's comment that "COVID-19-positive patients are not routinely being discharged to care homes", whether it will confirm how many such patients have been discharged to care homes in each month since February 2020, also broken down by how many (a) of them or their families were subject to full clinical consultation and (b) full risk assessments were carried out prior to discharge.
To ask the Scottish Government how many people with a diagnosed pre-existing respiratory condition have died each month after contracting COVID-19.
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of COVID-19 deaths has been people diagnosed with a pre-existing respiratory disease.
To ask the Scottish Government, whether the decision of the Sri Lankan police to arrest a Tamil priest for holding a war memorial service in Jaffna on 27 November 2020 raises any concerns for it in terms of Police Scotland's provision of community training for Sri Lankan police officers.