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 regarding how many people have been blocked from its (a) Twitter account and (b) Facebook page.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-34236 by Jeane Freeman on 26 January 2021, whether any application of DNACPR (do not attempt cardiopulmonary resuscitation) notices on people’s care plans against their wishes or without their consent is a breach of their human rights.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has carried out each year of its compliance with the (a) Equality Act 2010 and (b) Public Sector Equality Duty, and whether it will publish (i) the findings and (ii) details of any breaches that were reported.
To ask the Scottish Government what recent engagement it has had with representatives of Charlotte Street Partners, and whether it will continue to engage with them following the firm's membership of the Association for Scottish Public Affairs being withdrawn.
To ask the Scottish Government whether any NHS board used an age-based frailty score system triage tool at any time during the COVID-19 pandemic, and how such a system operated.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the evidence given by Dr Veronikis to the Public Petitions Committee in 2020.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-33926 by Mairi Gougeon on 11 January 2021, whether it plans to gather the information that was requested regarding how many hospital patients have been discharged to hospices (a) untested and (b) after testing positive for COVID-19, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how many and (b) what percentage of care home (i) residents and (ii) staff have received a COVID-19 vaccination each week.
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) residents and (b) staff there are in care homes.
To ask the Scottish Government whether any lack of access to healthcare for care home residents during the COVID-19 pandemic is a breach of their human rights.