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 whether it has contracted with a private laboratory in Northern Ireland to have COVID-19 tests processed.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will expand its COVID-19 testing to include residents in sheltered accommodation.
To ask the Scottish Government when it was first informed of a case of COVID-19 in Scotland; what it did to alert the public to the case, and what public health message it put out following the case.
To ask the Scottish Government how many of the planned 1.2 million COVID-19 tests in sentinel practices have been carried out.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the reported comments of a former chief medical officer in response to the COVID-19 outbreak that it should "Test, test, test. Trace the contacts and isolate them".
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the scientific evidence on which it based its decision to not roll out community testing for COVID-19.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it did not follow World Health Organization (WHO) advice to test and isolate every suspected case of COVID-19.
To ask the Scottish Government what its policy is on community testing and isolating every suspected case of COVID-19.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will roll out community testing for COVID-19.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the comments by its National Clinical Director on Channel 4 on 16 March 2020, whether it will confirm how many key workers (a) overall and (b) in the nuclear sector had been tested for COVID-19 by the end of each week since that date.