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.
Displaying 2295 questions Show Answers
To ask the Scottish Government when it will introduce routine COVID-19 testing of staff and pupils in schools.
To ask the Scottish Government how many intensive care vacant bed (a) days and (b) nights there have been in each month since January 2020.
To ask the Scottish Government what advice was given to the Scottish Ambulance Service regarding who to admit to hospital during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To ask the Scottish Government whether the ratings score for ambulance patients to be admitted to hospital has been changed at any time during 2020.
To ask the Scottish Government how many excess deaths there were (a) outside and (b) inside care homes in the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic.
To ask the Scottish Government how many people over 65 were admitted to intensive care in each month from February to May in each of the last five years.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether its health policies for older people during the COVID-19 pandemic have been discriminatory.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to improve people's respiratory health in order to be better prepared for any future increases in COVID-19 infections.
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Cabinet Secretary for Justice has the power to stop Police Scotland training Sri Lankan police officers.
To ask the Scottish Government whether Police Scotland plans to work with Sri Lanka's Special Task Force in the future, in light of the allegations regarding its human rights record in the documentary, Keenie Meenie: Britain's Private Army.