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: S6W-11213
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-10441 by Jenny Gilruth on 20 September 2022, in light of it being late September, how it defines “later this year”; whether it will provide a specific date or more specific timescale for the publication of the findings; for what reason it did not provide a specific date or more specific timescale in its answer; whether there has been a delay to the publication, and, if so, for what reasons.
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Question reference: S6O-01425
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 September 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the provision of maternity services.
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Question reference: S6W-10737
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 20 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what action is being taken to provide support to (a) businesses and (b) households for the roll-out of clean heat technologies in rural communities, and to ensure that the expertise of trades people is developed and sustained.
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Question reference: S6W-10441
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 20 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government on what date it plans to publish the findings of the Second Strategic Transport Projects Review (STPR2).
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Question reference: S6W-10111
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 26 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action is being taken to increase the diagnostic capacity for myeloma.
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Question reference: S6W-10112
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to advising NHS boards to follow NICE guideline NG35 on the diagnosis and management of myeloma, published in 2018, in light of no SIGN guideline reportedly existing for myeloma.
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Question reference: S6W-10142
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 22 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to respond to the UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs consultation Contractual Practice in the UK Pig Sector.
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Question reference: S6W-09820
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has plans to introduce free rail travel in Dumfries and Galloway for anyone holding a bus pass.
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Question reference: S6W-09532
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what funding it is providing to support the early detection of blood cancers.
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Question reference: S6W-09533
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many patients in Dumfries and Galloway are currently diagnosed with blood cancers.