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: S5F-03459
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 June 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 June 2019
To ask the First Minister what action the Scottish Government is taking to ensure that cases of Lyme disease are diagnosed and treated as early as possible.
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Question reference: S5W-23652
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 06 June 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 14 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made towards a national database/audit for fracture liaison services in Scotland similar to the Fracture Liaison Service Database (FLS-DB) in England and Wales.
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Question reference: S5W-23548
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 7 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-22800 by Joe FitzPatrick on 14 May 2019, what opportunities for Scotland to contribute to the evidence base it is exploring with the UK screening committee, and whether this includes a population-based screening pilot.
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Question reference: S5O-03364
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 June 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve safety on the A77.
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Question reference: S5W-23484
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is regarding the practice of resetting waiting times for patients who are forced to defer treatment due to unavoidable personal or professional commitments.
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Question reference: S5W-22943
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 28 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport on 27 June 2017 (Official Report, c. 28), what progress has been made with the commitment to "establish an oversight group comprising families and representative organisations to undertake scrutiny from the service users’ perspective of the changes that are happening not only in NHS Ayrshire and Arran but in maternity and neonatal services throughout Scotland".
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Question reference: S5O-03306
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made on finalising contracts with the DWP for continued delivery of some devolved benefits.
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Question reference: S5W-23094
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 22 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-21941 by Michael Matheson on 6 March 2019, whether it will provide the information that was requested regarding the date that the South West Scotland Transport Study will be published.
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Question reference: S5W-23259
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 21 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the news of the forthcoming appointment of a special adviser on stroke to the Chief Medical Officer, whether this will lead to a review of how stroke services are delivered.
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Question reference: S5W-22800
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 April 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 14 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out of the Manchester lung health check pilot programme, which uses CT screening to assist with the early identification of lung cancer and is being rolled out across NHS England, and what its position is on introducing a similar approach across Scotland.
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