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-13652
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 22 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the policy for sacral nerve stimulation procedures for treatment of urinary incontinence is based on funding for a fixed number of procedures per year for all Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-13660
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made with its review of pathology and laboratory medicine services, and when it expects the review will be completed.
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Question reference: S5W-13731
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 18 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to reduce the number of women who had to travel to England to obtain terminations of pregnancy, given that 180 women reportedly did so in 2016.
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Question reference: S5W-13729
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether its plans to provide free abortion services to women travelling from Northern Ireland will include (a) the ability for women to book services remotely and (b) providing funding, where necessary, for (i) travel and (ii) accommodation for (A) the patient and (B) an accompanying person.
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Question reference: S5W-13708
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 16 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what work is being done to ensure that dog boarding establishment licenses are only given to premises suitable for these animals.
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Question reference: S5W-13707
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 16 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is considering updating legalisation, in light of the Animal Boarding Establishments Act 1963 and Civic Government Scotland Act 1982 not including explicit consideration of the suitability of properties for animal boarding.
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Question reference: S5W-13732
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 16 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to work with the English and Welsh governments to advise and advocate on the extension of the clinically safe, home use of abortion medication in their jurisdictions.
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Question reference: S5O-01684
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 January 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on gender-neutral school uniforms.
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Question reference: S5W-13479
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made on the commitment in its published strategy, Beating Cancer: Ambition and Action, to increase NHS scope capacity by 2,000 scopes per annum on a sustainable basis.
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Question reference: S5W-13349
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 3 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on non-UK EU nationals continuing to have the right to vote in (a) local authority and (b) Scottish parliamentary elections post-Brexit.
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