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-15789
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 April 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 30 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when it will provide a substantive answer to question S5W-14907, which received a holding response on 13 March 2018.
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Question reference: S5W-15791
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 April 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-15090 by Shona Robison on 21 March 2018, whether, in the course of the Primary Care Workforce Survey Scotland 2017, it was provided with the information that was requested regarding what the longest period is that a current GP post has been vacant for, and in which NHS board this is and, if so, whether it will provide this information.
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Question reference: S5W-15792
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 April 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-15087 by Shona Robison on 21 March 2018, whether it will provide the information that was requested regarding what assessment it has made of how many GPs will retire in each of the next 10 years.
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Question reference: S5W-15790
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 April 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 19 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-15089 by Shona Robison on 21 March 2018, whether it will provide the information that was requested regarding how many posts in each NHS board were vacant for (a) between (i) six and 12, (ii) 12 and 18, (iii) 18 and 24, (iv) 24 and 30 and (v) 30 and 36 and (b) over 36 months.
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Question reference: S5W-14907
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 16 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS clinical staff have taken early retirement in each year since 2010-11, and what analysis it has carried out of their reasons for doing so, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S5W-15120
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 29 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of NHS Grampian and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde reportedly being the only NHS boards that offer Botox treatment for migraines, what its response is to reports that they do not accept people from other board areas who require this treatment.
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Question reference: S5W-14906
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 28 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many GPs have taken early retirement in each year since 2007, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S5O-01964
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 March 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the prescription of cannabis-derived therapies on the NHS.
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Question reference: S5W-15227
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 21 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) support and (b) resources it provides to the parents or carers of children receiving mental health treatment on the child's discharge from hospital, and whether it plans to extend this.
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Question reference: S5W-15136
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 21 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the effectiveness of the legislation that deals with stalking offences, and whether it plans to review this.
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