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 its policy on the testing of asymptomatic people changed from not testing to testing.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the Urgent Question by Jeane Freeman on 12 May 2020 regarding the identification of COVID-19 cases (Official Report, c, 14), who carried out the contact testing following the outbreak at the February 2020 Nike conference in Edinburgh; what role NHS Lothian played in this; how many people in the (a) NHS Lothian area and (b) rest of the country were tested, broken down by each organisation responsible for testing, and what information it has regarding the number of people from outwith Scotland who were tested.
To ask the Scottish Government whose decision it was not to continue with its test, trace and isolate policy in mid-March 2020.
To ask the Scottish Government on what basis the Chief Medical Officer for Scotland said on 16 February 2020 that the NHS was “well prepared” to deal with COVID-19.
To ask the Scottish Government how many people in care homes have died from COVID-19 or had COVID-19 mentioned on their death certificate.
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have died in care homes in each week since 1 February 2020.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the publication of the 2018 edition of the Scottish Care Home Census has reportedly been delayed.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown by age of the number of people who have died in hospital and had COVID-19 recorded as a contributory factor.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it considered that the Rangers versus Bayer Leverkusen football match on 12 March 2020 should go ahead, in light of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, and on whose advice the match was sanctioned.
To ask the Scottish Government how many people in each NHS board area have received emergency dental treatment during each month of the COVID-19 lockdown, and, if it does not hold this information, whether NHS boards can provide it with this.