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-24702
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 August 2019
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Reform Scotland briefing, Closing the early years gap, which states that 50% of children are not guaranteed two years of funded early years education, what action it is taking to remedy this.
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Question reference: S5W-24666
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
- Current Status: Answer expected on 5 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport approved the payment of £11.6 million made by NHS Lothian to Integrated Health Solutions Lothian to facilitate resolution of issues at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services project; what other options were considered, and who it informed of the existence of the payment following the Scottish Government's approval in August 2018.
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Question reference: S5W-24412
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time is for a hysterectomy operation, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S5W-24298
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 7 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its news release of 9 July 2019, Barriers to employment in early learning and childcare: EQIA, how many of the 11,000 additional workers required for the sector have so far been recruited through the workforce expansion project.
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Question reference: S5W-24478
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 25 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 7 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-24217 by Kevin Stewart on 15 July 2019, whether it will provide a breakdown of the number of social rent homes that have (a) been completed and (b) started construction by local authority area.
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Question reference: S5W-24396
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what questions are being asked in the (a) Scottish Health Survey and (b) Health and Wellbeing Census.
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Question reference: S5W-24372
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what meetings it has had with academics at Glasgow Caledonian University following its research indicating a 10-fold increase in HIV infection among drug users in Glasgow.
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Question reference: S5W-24373
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many needles were distributed to drug users in Glasgow in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18 and (d) 2018-19.
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Question reference: S5W-24310
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 6 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how it encourages the NHS to increase the use of technology in care systems to improve services, and what resources and funding it provides.
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Question reference: S5W-24437
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out of the impact of social prescribing that focuses on sport and physical activity and its link to technology.