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-30822
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 6 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that people diagnosed with blood cancer after 1 August 2020 will be added to the shielding list, and under what circumstances shielding would be re-introduced nationally or locally.
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Question reference: S5W-30519
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 06 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 30 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will commit to ensuring that everyone who is newly diagnosed with blood cancer continues to be added to the shielding list after 31 July 2020.
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Question reference: S5W-30517
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 06 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 30 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it would commit to including more detailed guidance for blood cancers as shielding is lifted, so that people with blood cancer who are at lower risk of serious illness can be safely excluded from future shielding and that those at highest risk receive clear information and support to help guide their choices about how to avoid infection.
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Question reference: S5W-30518
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 06 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 30 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the infection rate at which people might be asked to shield again, and, if so, whether the information would be provided at a regional or local level.
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Question reference: S5W-29956
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 15 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has sold, or allowed access to, COVID-19-related health data, including patients' personal medical information, to any third party and, if so, (a) what data, (b) to whom and (c) for what reason.
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Question reference: S5W-30076
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 9 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to highlight the increased risks from stagnant water and Legionnaires' disease to businesses such as hotels and leisure centres that are currently closed due to COVID-19, and to inform the public of ways to minimise the risks of contracting the disease.
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Question reference: S5T-02267
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 June 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the review into the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.
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Question reference: S5W-28901
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government who the members are of its COVID-19-related scientific advisory group; when the minutes of the group's meetings will be published, and whether special advisers attend its meetings in an official or informal basis.
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Question reference: S5W-28915
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 18 May 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether the recently-announced COVID-19-related death in service payment for the families of NHS staff will be funded by it directly and not from the NHS superannuation scheme.
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Question reference: S5W-28758
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 April 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 18 May 2020
To ask Scottish Government how many people with blood cancer have had (a) CAR-T cell therapy and (b) a stem cell transplant in each of the last six months for which data is available, and what impact the COVID-19 outbreak has had on access to this.