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-23877
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 June 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 15 July 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-23553 by Kevin Stewart on 7 June 2019, for what reason it does not collect any further information regarding what the "Other (known)" outcomes are and whether it plans to collect them in the future.
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Question reference: S5W-23871
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 June 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 15 July 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-23552 by Kevin Stewart on 5 June 2019, what scoping work has been carried out in relation to people experiencing domestic abuse.
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Question reference: S5W-23876
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 June 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 15 July 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-22646 by Kevin Stewart on 1 May 2019, what steps it is taking to record and classify the outcomes for the category "Not known".
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Question reference: S5W-23872
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 June 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 15 July 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-23552 by Kevin Stewart on 5 June 2019, whether it will provide details of the first meeting of the working group convened by the Centre for Excellence for Children's Care and Protection on 20 May 2019.
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Question reference: S5W-24082
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 11 July 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will put in place extra support for carers who cannot access support services for carers but wish to.
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Question reference: S5W-23988
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 June 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 9 July 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the objectives of the Detect Cancer Early Programme, what steps are being taken to increase the proportion of people with lung cancer who are diagnosed at stage 1.
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Question reference: S5W-23924
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 June 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 9 July 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent in each of the last five years on awareness-raising regarding the appropriate use of disabled car parking spaces; when it last ran a major campaign on this issue; what analysis it carried out regarding the effectiveness of that campaign, and what plans it has for future campaigns.
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Question reference: S5W-23852
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 June 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 9 July 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken, and is taking, to tackle zero hours contracts in social care, in light of reports that a third of the Coalition of Care and Support's member charities have handed back at least one contract in 2018.
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Question reference: S5W-23987
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 June 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 July 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many people with lung cancer in each of the last five years have been diagnosed with the condition at stage (a) 1, (b) 2, (c) 3 and (d) 4.
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Question reference: S5W-23851
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 June 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 July 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on social care spend per head in each of the last five years.