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 what information it has on the (a) status and (b) location of patients who were in hospitals waiting on care packages (delayed discharge cases) and who have been discharged to increase capacity for COVID-19 patients on each day since 1 February 2020.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will introduce a public holiday as mark of respect for the people who lost their lives during the COVID-19 crisis, and in recognition of the contribution of workers at this time.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will hold a public inquiry into the handling of the COVID-19 outbreak.
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been discharged from hospital to care homes since 1 February 2020, and how many have subsequently died.
To ask the Scottish Government how many hospital patients who had been categorised as a delayed discharge case but were subsequently discharged since 1 March 2020 have died each day.
To ask the Scottish Government when it was advised by (a) its and (b) the UK advisory group on COVID-19 that there should be a lockdown in response to the outbreak, and whether it will publish the advice that was provided.
To ask the Scottish Government when it decided to introduce a lockdown in response to the COVID-19 outbreak, and whether it will publish the advice that it received that led to this decision.
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have died on each day since 1 February 2020, and how this compares with each of the last five years.
To ask the Scottish Government how many people who died on each day since 1 February 2020 and who tested positive for COVID-19 (a) had and (b) had not been hospitalised on the suspicion that they had the virus.
To ask the Scottish Government how many excess deaths there have been on each day since 1 February 2020, and how this compares with what would normally have been expected based on the last 20 years of data.