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-02934
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 30 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the report in The Herald on 28 August 2015, Junior doctor brain drain gives NHS a headache, (a) how many and (b) what proportion of junior doctors have an average working week of 48 hours or less, broken down by NHS board, and what action it takes to enforce this.
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Question reference: S5O-00232
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 September 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to make ferries serving Argyll and Bute more accessible for disabled people.
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Question reference: S5O-00194
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 28 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to encourage universities to increase the number of Scotland-domiciled medicine undergraduates.
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Question reference: S5W-02778
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 27 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take in response to the claim in the report State of Nature 2016 Scotland that one-in-11 species of animals and plants in the country are at risk of extinction.
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Question reference: S5W-02632
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 26 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has invested in shinty in each year since 2007, and how much it plans to invest in each of the next five years.
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Question reference: S5W-02166
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 26 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to (a) raise awareness of and (b) tackle mesothelioma.
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Question reference: S5W-02006
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many radiotherapy specialists have been recruited since May 2016; where they have been placed, and by what date it will meet its pledge to recruit an extra 100 specialists.
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Question reference: S5W-02118
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether Kadcyla will be made available on the NHS and what plans it has to improve access to new cancer medicines.
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Question reference: S5W-02090
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 9 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government when the descriptors for each of the 42 wild land areas identified in Scottish Natural Heritage’s map of wild land areas from June 2014 will be published and for what reason they have not been published.
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Question reference: S5W-01916
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-01550 by Shona Robison on 9 August 2016, whether it would intervene in decisions that would change the centre's capacity for inpatient care and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.