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-06164
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many reports have been made of an ambulance not being inspected for mechanical safety in each year since 2010.
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Question reference: S5W-06156
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what the longest recorded time was to discharge a patient from an ambulance on arrival at A&E in each month since May 2011, broken down by Scottish Ambulance Service regional operational division.
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Question reference: S5F-00844
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 January 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 February 2017
To ask the First Minister how many refugees the Scottish Government expects to welcome in 2017.
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Question reference: S5W-06150
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 26 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its news release of 6 December 2016, NHS staffing at new record high, how many of the 11,500 additional staff are whole-time equivalent.
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Question reference: S5W-06151
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 26 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what funding has been given to hospices for palliative care needs in each year since 2007, broken down by NHS board area.
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Question reference: S5O-00614
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government when carer’s allowance will be increased for carers in Glasgow.
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Question reference: S5W-06149
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 25 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many non-clinical whole-time equivalent staff have been employed by each NHS board in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S5W-06098
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 25 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the use of agency nurses by NHS boards.
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Question reference: S5W-05728
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 19 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 19 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many "did not attends" (DNAs) there have been from the Scottish Prison Service to NHS appointments in each year since May 2011, broken down by health board.
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Question reference: S5W-05944
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 09 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 17 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many consultants each NHS board has employed on a 8:2 contract in each year since 2007.