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-26042
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to help young people at risk of suicide.
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Question reference: S5W-26041
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to recent research by the University of Stirling, which suggests that suicidal children are at risk of being overlooked by its global policies.
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Question reference: S5W-26040
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-21577 by Clare Haughey on 6 March 2019, what plans it has to introduce a policy that will allow the recording of information regarding the number of school pupils who have completed suicide.
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Question reference: S5W-25930
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the figures published by the Mental Welfare Commission suggesting that detentions for mental illness are at their highest recorded level, with 16- and 17-year-olds accounting for the steepest rise.
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Question reference: S5W-26264
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 November 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure there is public participation and a service design-approach to national digital health and social care services.
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Question reference: S5W-26271
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 November 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what digital health and care services it aims to provide in each NHS board area, and by what date.
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Question reference: S5W-26269
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 November 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what target it has set for all (a) GP practices and (b) hospitals in each NHS board area to provide access to Wi-Fi to patients, and what progress is being made with this.
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Question reference: S5W-26268
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 November 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making on introducing a portal for patients in each NHS board area.
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Question reference: S5W-26265
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 November 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish details of the progress that has been made in achieving the deliverable actions set out in its eHealth Strategy 2014-2017, including encouraging "all GP practices...to provide online repeat prescribing and online appointment booking as online services, with a view to at least 90% of practices offering this service by 2017”.
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Question reference: S5W-26267
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 November 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when everyone in each NHS board area will have online access to their medical records.