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.
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To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to prevent job losses at (a) Edinburgh Airport and (b) other Scottish airports.
To ask the Scottish Government what its sector-specific plan is to support aviation.
To ask the Scottish Government, what its response is to the proposals set out by the Confederation of Passenger Transport (CPT) Scotland at the recent event, Honk for Hope, which was organised to highlight the issues facing the coach sector.
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out of the response rate to 101 calls, and what action it is taking to address reported concerns that many go unanswered.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the view expressed by the Chief Executive of Scottish Care during the BBC programme, Disclosure: The Care Home Scandal, that the initial Scottish Government advice to care homes that residents who were showing symptoms of COVID-19 should not normally be admitted to hospital was "unacceptable, inhumane and a derogation of the duty to protect life".
To ask the Scottish Government who was the author of the policy guidance regarding patients being sent to care homes without being tested for COVID-19.
To ask the Scottish Government who was the author of the policy to advise care homes that residents who were showing symptoms of COVID-19 should not normally be admitted to hospital.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the 2020 exam results adjustment figures broken down by school.
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of pupils who were due to sit exams in 2020 had their grades, as predicted by their school, marked (a) down and (b) up by the SQA, also broken down by (i) subject and (ii) exam level.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its announcement on 17 July 2020 regarding a Complex Mesh Removal Surgical Service, which surgeons are on the new multi-disciplinary team; where they were trained in “total or full” mesh removal; who trained them in “total or full” mesh removal; whether they have been trained in groin incision “total or full” mesh removal; how many “total or full” mesh removal surgeries each surgeon has performed, broken down by (a) the type of mesh removed in the surgeries and (b) how of the operations were (i) successful and (ii) not successful and resulted in post-operative complications; what information it has on whether any of the surgeons may have a conflict of interest due to having received research funding, training, sponsorship, pay or any other incentives from mesh manufacturers or pharmaceutical companies, and whether the service will have a translabial ultrasound scanner to identify mesh in the body.