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
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Question reference: S5W-19459
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 1 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that data on the prevalence of health conditions, previously captured by the Quality Outcomes Framework, will continue to be made publicly available, and what will be done to ensure that this is available from the year 2016-17 onwards so that trends can continue to be monitored.
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Question reference: S5W-19303
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 1 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of the work that is underway to develop an enhanced national mental health pathway for those coming into contact with justice system who are in mental health crisis or distress, as referred to in its paper, Mental Health Strategy: 2017-2027 - 1st Progress Report, in response to the goal of supporting “efforts through a refreshed Justice Strategy to help improve mental health outcomes for those in the justice system”.
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Question reference: S5W-19347
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 31 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether, under the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003, it is mandatory for doctors, nurses, social workers and mental health officers to make people with learning disabilities and those with a mental illness aware of their right to independent advocacy and how to access it.
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Question reference: S5W-19231
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 31 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of new figures obtained by BBC Scotland that show people with learning disabilities and autism are still being required to live some distance from their families, and its commitment in 2013 that "by 2018 people with learning disabilities and autism and complex care needs who are currently in facilities outwith Scotland should be supported to live nearer their family in Scotland", what action it (a) has taken and (b) will take to reduce the number of out-of-area placements.
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Question reference: S5W-19258
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 31 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of new figures obtained by BBC Scotland, how much it has cost NHS Scotland to facilitate the practice of moving people with learning disabilities, autism and complex care needs to facilities outwith Scotland in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S5O-02494
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what progress it is making with its commitment to recruit up to 250 community link workers to work in GP surgeries by the end of the parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S5W-19011
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 September 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 22 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-18613 by Clare Haughey on 24 September 2018, what additional funding will be provided to local authorities to support the recruitment of the additional school counsellors.
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Question reference: S5W-19010
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 September 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 22 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-18613 by Clare Haughey on 24 September 2018, by what date the delivery plan for all of the mental health commitments in the Programme for Government will be published.
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Question reference: S5W-17970
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 25 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to its commitment in its Programme for Government 2016-17 to recruit up to 250 community link workers to work in GP surgeries by the end of the parliamentary session, how many were recruited by July 2018, including those recruited by health and social care partnerships.
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Question reference: S5W-18455
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 25 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of staff in higher education establishments in each of the last five years have been registered disabled.
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