Chamber and committees

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.

Find out more about parliamentary questions

Filter your results Hide all filters

Displaying 2232 questions Show Answers

Order by |

Question reference: S5W-08581

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2017
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 24 April 2017

To ask the Scottish Government when the audit of child and adolescent mental health services rejected referrals will be commissioned.

Question reference: S5W-08595

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2017
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 24 April 2017

To ask the Scottish Government how it is delivering the (a) appropriate, evidence-based, parenting programmes, (b) evidence-based interventions as a means of addressing behavioural and emotional issues in children and young people and (c) mental health training for non-mental health staff across health and social care services, as outlined in the Mental Health Strategy 2017-2027.

Question reference: S5W-08607

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2017
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 24 April 2017

To ask the Scottish Government when it will (a) determine and (b) implement the additional support support needed for practitioner assessing and managing complex needs among children who present a high risk to themselves or others.

Question reference: S5W-08613

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2017
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 24 April 2017

To ask the Scottish Government when it will establish the Managed Clinical Network to improve the recognition and treatment of perinatal mental health problems.

Question reference: S5W-08593

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2017
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 24 April 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to measure people's experiences of mental health services.

Question reference: S5W-08583

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2017
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 24 April 2017

To ask the Scottish Government when it will begin assessing the required level of highly specialist mental health inpatient services for young people.

Question reference: S5W-08590

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2017
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 24 April 2017

To ask the Scottish Government when the reform of adults with incapacity legislation will take place, and who will be consulted.

Scottish Government officials are currently developing a series of proposals for reform of the Adults with Incapacity legislation based on the recommendations for change which arose from the Scottish Government's consultation on the Scottish Law Commission's report on Adults with Incapacity which was carried out last year. In May and June these proposals will be discussed informally with a wide range of stakeholders and service users. Following this further work will be done to refine the proposals before a full public consultation which will take place in the autumn of 2017.

Question reference: S5W-08598

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2017
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 21 April 2017

To ask the Scottish Government when the (a) National Trauma Skills and Knowledge Framework and (b) National Training Plan for practitioners will be established.

The Transforming Trauma Knowledge and Skill Framework is expected to be published shortly. The Framework will equip practitioners working in the statutory and voluntary sectors with the knowledge and skills to be able to identify risk of abuse and be able to respond in a way which will enable positive outcomes for survivors of abuse and trauma. A National Training Plan will then be developed and implemented over the following two years and reviewed in 2019. The NHS Education Scotland website has a webpage dedicated to this and outlines the aims and intentions of the project as well as timescales for completion. This can be found at: http://www.nes.scot.nhs.uk/education-and-training/by-discipline/psychology/multiprofessional-psychology/national-trauma-training-framework.aspx

Question reference: S5W-08600

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2017
Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 21 April 2017

To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish the framework for supporting disabled children, young people and their families, and who will be involved in its development.

The Framework to Support Disabled Children, Young People and their Families will be published in Summer 2018. A draft Framework will be published in Autumn 2017 and there will also be consultation on the draft Framework at this time.

The Framework will be developed in co-production with the people it will support, and work is currently underway to set up a mechanism for young disabled and deaf people to contribute to this process. In addition, the Disabled Children and Young People Advisory Group is made up of a range of organisations from the public and third sectors, as well as parents of disabled children and young people, and is acting as an advisory group for the development of the Framework. The public consultation will coincide with the Year of Young People 2018, and will be fully inclusive and aim to involve the widest range of people and organisations possible.

Question reference: S5W-08599

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2017
Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 21 April 2017

To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish its response to the recommendations of the project, Everyone Has a Story.

We are working actively with Lloyds Partnership Drugs Initiative (PDI) and other partners to fully realise the five recommendations that were directed towards the Scottish Government within the Everyone Has a Story Overview Report. A further 45 recommendations were directed towards practitioners, local decision makers and to the PDI itself.

On 10 November 2016, Minister for Health and Sport, Aileen Campbell MSP, met with the Chief Executive of Lloyds PDI specifically to discuss implementation of the recommendations. The Scottish Government and Lloyds PDI subsequently co-produced a tri-partite programme of work to boost both immediate and longer term progression with the recommendations, including embedding improved practice within Alcohol and Drugs Partnership (ADP) areas. In 2017-18 this programme will be directly supported by Scottish Government funding of £247,000, to be supplemented by support in kind from Lloyds PDI and ADP partners.