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, in light of its news release of 2 December 2017, RBS branch closures, whether it considers that the bank's recently-announced proposals to reduce mobile banking services breach what it considers the "guaranteed minimum level of service provision for essential banking services" should be, and, if so, whether it plans to discuss with the bank introducing alternative proposals.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its news release of 2 December 2017, RBS branch closures, what it considers the "guaranteed minimum level of service provision for essential banking services" should be, and whether this includes setting a minimum number of (a) days and (b) hours that mobile banking services should offer to areas that have no access to physical branches.
To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have missed the recommended 12-week outpatient appointment standard in (a) NHS Lothian and (b) the rest of the country in the last year.
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body which of its services that were provided by external contractors in each of the last 10 years have subsequently been taken in-house; what analysis it has made of the impact that each change had on the (a) level of service provided and (b) cost of providing the service, and whether it is considering taking further services in-house.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that NHS waiting times for (a) outpatient appointments and (b) A&E departments are recorded accurately.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that patients in the NHS Lothian area have been told they will have to wait up to 44 weeks for an orthopaedics outpatient appointment.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve rural bus services.
To ask the Scottish Government what the average weekly payment is to locum GPs, broken down by NHS board.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how many active golf club members there have been in each of the last 10 years, and what the average club membership fee has been; what analysis it has carried out of how the Barclay Review recommendations on non-domestic rates might impact on fees and clubs, and how any reduced participation because of the closure of clubs if their non-domestic rates rise might impact on health and wellbeing.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the report in The Times on 8 March 2018 that there is "a culture of neglect" at Tippethill Hospital, whether it is aware of similar allegations regarding other NHS facilities and, if so, (a) which and (b) what action it is taking to (i) address these and (ii) prevent these happening again.