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 how many women have had transvaginal mesh implants since it requested NHS boards to suspend their use in June 2014.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its role with the National Advisory and Advocacy Group for the Scottish Centre for Healthy Working Lives, what discussions it has had with (a) the Health and Safety Executive and (b) other stakeholders regarding (i) the effectiveness of and (ii) improving the Primary Authority Scheme.
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body under what circumstances it employs staff on agency contracts rather than fixed-term or permanent contracts.
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how much it has paid to employment agencies to provide staff in each of the last five years.
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many staff it has employed on agency contracts in each of the last five years.
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many contracts for agency staff that it employed in the last five years were for (a) less than one month, (b) one to six months, (c) between six months and two years and (d) over two years.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether Scotland has good bus services.
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has made or is giving to allowing schools to opt-out of local authority control.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the details of any discussions that it has had with the Qatari Government.
To ask the Scottish Government how much financial support it provides to (a) food banks and (b) the Trussell Trust.