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-05685
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 19 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 17 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how it will resource its ambition that by 2020 Scotland will be an international leader in the management of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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Question reference: S5W-04749
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 22 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-02033 by Aileen Campbell on 11 November 2016, how much funding it will provide to each alcohol and drug partnership in 2016-17.
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Question reference: S5W-05423
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 22 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government when it will provide a substantive answer to question S5W-04749, which received a holding response on 30 November 2016.
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Question reference: S5W-05414
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 22 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government at what capacity mother and baby inpatient units at (a) St John's and (b) Leverndale Hospital have been operating in each year since 2011, from which NHS board areas people were admitted during that period, and how many.
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Question reference: S5W-05411
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 22 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many mothers have been separated from their babies in the course of receiving mental health treatment in each year since 2011.
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Question reference: S5W-05412
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 22 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what maternal mental health targets it has, and which NHS boards are meeting these.
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Question reference: S5W-05409
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 22 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether the mother and baby inpatient units at (a) St John's and (b) Leverndale Hospital have had to turn people away in each year since 2011 and, if so, for what reasons.
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Question reference: S5W-05410
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 22 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many mothers in each NHS board area have received mental health support outside of their board area in each year since 2011.
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Question reference: S5W-05464
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have been referred for assessment for deep brain stimulation surgery to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital from NHS boards outwith the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde area since April 2016.
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Question reference: S5W-05472
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 22 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the success of the Diabetes - think, check, act initiative.