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-30462
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 06 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 22 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider allowing beauty, spa and wellness services to reopen alongside hairdressers.
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Question reference: S5W-30545
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 17 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason Education Scotland has not reportedly inspected over 34% of Aberdeenshire Council primary schools in the last 10 years or more; on what basis a school is selected to be inspected, and when the remaining 53 schools that have not been inspected will be timetabled.
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Question reference: S5W-30176
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 16 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has recruited a stroke advisor to the Chief Medical Officer, and, if so, whether (a) the position is full-time and (b) it will provide a summary of work undertaken by the postholder to date.
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Question reference: S5W-30125
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 19 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 16 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it is taking to ensure that risk assessments that have been instructed for BAME NHS staff are being undertaken and acted upon at all levels; how these risk assessments are being measured and reviewed, and, in light of the Black Lives Matter movement, what steps it is taking to ensure that BAME (a) staff's concerns are being listened to in the NHS and (b) staff can speak freely and without fear regarding any concerns.
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Question reference: S5W-30129
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 7 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it has taken to support large youth organisations such as the Scouts and Boys' Brigade that do not qualify for existing third sector interface funding.
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Question reference: S5W-29807
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 26 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what plans are in place to protect cancer treatment capacity, in terms of (a) infrastructure and (b) staff, in the event of a second surge of COVID cases.
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Question reference: S5W-29809
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 26 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of potential inequalities in access to treatment if treatment, in particular, surgery, is increasingly being delivered on a limited number of COVID-19-free sites, and how it plans to mitigate any such inequalities.
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Question reference: S5W-29601
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 23 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comment by Jeane Freeman on 20 May 2020 that the Barnett consequentials it has received from “the additional resource that the UK Government has committed to care home work…will go to care home work in Scotland” (Official Report, c. 31), whether it will confirm how much has been received, also broken down by how much has been allocated to the North East Scotland parliamentary region and how this will be distributed in that area.
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Question reference: S5W-29838
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 22 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to concerns that almost 50% of NHS Grampian employees cannot be fitted with FFP3 masks due to these items failing sealing tests.
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Question reference: S5W-29839
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 22 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what support is being provided to NHS boards to ensure that they are provided with FFP3 masks that have the highest fitting success rate.
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