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-32146
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 23 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many hospital beds there have been in each NHS board in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S5W-32151
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 23 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when NHS dentistry will be able to resume dental treatments.
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Question reference: S5W-32147
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 23 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reported concerns by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine that lack of capacity in hospitals will lead to A&E delays and ambulance queues.
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Question reference: S5W-32144
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 23 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has carried out an Equality Impact Assessment of continued restrictions on NHS dentistry.
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Question reference: S5W-32032
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 24 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 23 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what use it has made or plans to make of laboratory testing capacity for PCR COVID-19 tests in (a) university and (b) private laboratories, and what the associated costs are.
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Question reference: S5W-32033
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 24 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 23 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many walk-in COVID-19 testing centres it plans to establish, broken down by location.
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Question reference: S5W-32035
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 24 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 23 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what COVID-19 testing facilities are available (a) at higher and further education institutions and (b) near student accommodation, and what plans it has to prioritise mobile testing units for these locations.
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Question reference: S5W-32073
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 23 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when the 24/7 NHS service that was announced in the Programme for Government will be completed.
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Question reference: S5W-32074
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 23 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many additional whole-time equivalent staff will be required to deliver the (a) 24/7 NHS service and (b) redesign of unscheduled care that was announced in the Programme for Government, broken down by profession.
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Question reference: S5W-32076
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 23 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-25509 by Jeane Freeman on 8 October 2019, how many community link workers (a) have been recruited and (b) are in post, broken down by SIMD quintile.