Questions and answers
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.
- Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
- Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber
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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Question reference: S5W-31306
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 9 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on developing the substance misuse electronic assessment tool, Drug and Alcohol Intervention Service (DAISy); what the final estimated cost is, and how this compares with the original estimate.
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Question reference: S5F-04351
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 07 September 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 September 2020
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5F-04329
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 31 August 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 September 2020
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5W-31307
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 28 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether NHS Information Services Division (ISD) will publish draft details of the substance misuse electronic assessment tool, Drug and Alcohol Intervention Service (DAISy) before beta testing to allow frontline drug workers and managers and people in treatment or recovery to comment before its finalisation.
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Question reference: S5W-31308
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 28 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government which drug teams are or have been involved in the beta testing of the substance misuse electronic assessment tool, Drug and Alcohol Intervention Service (DAISy).
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Question reference: S5W-31304
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 28 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the substance misuse electronic assessment tool, Drug and Alcohol Intervention Service (DAISy), is not yet operational.
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Question reference: S5W-31057
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 26 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication in The Lancet of research showing the benefit of the Cytosponge TFF3 test in diagnosing Barrett’s oesophagus early and in savings on endoscopies, and in light of the reported backlog in endoscopies due to the COVID-19 pandemic, what steps it is taking to ensure the test's widespread and rapid introduction in hospitals and primary care.
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Question reference: S5W-30909
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 26 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when the NHS Louisa Jordan hospital will open to patients, and which procedures will take place there.
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Question reference: S5W-30911
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 26 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many staff are currently working at the NHS Louisa Jordan hospital; what their job titles are, and how many staff have worked there in each month since the building work was officially completed.
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Question reference: S5F-04303
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 August 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 August 2020
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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