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: S6W-10163
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-05100 by Humza Yousaf on 5 January 2022, whether it will publish the six-month progress reports for the nine research projects on long COVID.
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Question reference: S6W-10146
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 August 2022
To ask the Scottish government whether it has taken action to ensure timely access to COVID-19 vaccination for any Ukrainian refugee who wishes to be vaccinated.
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Question reference: S6W-10155
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 29 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) assessments it has undertaken and (b) preparations it has made to ensure adequate capacity for (i) Ukrainian children to be educated and (ii) Ukrainian-speaking translators to be made available in Scottish schools.
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Question reference: S6W-10150
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what arrangements it has made to ensure that Ukrainian refugees have access to local dental treatment and GP practices.
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Question reference: S6W-10088
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has plans to offer vaccination to people most at risk of contracting monkeypox.
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Question reference: S6W-10090
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many doses of the Modified Vaccinia Ankara (MVA) vaccine it has access to, and whether it plans to order any more doses.
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Question reference: S6W-10072
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 25 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the ministerial statement by the Minister for Drugs Policy on Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT) standards on 23 June 2022, when funding for Alcohol and Drug Partnerships (ADPs) to meet MAT standards was confirmed, and when ADPs received this funding into relevant bank accounts.
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Question reference: S6W-10105
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many category (a) purple, (b) red, (c) amber and (d) yellow ambulance call-outs took more than (i) 8, (ii) 10, (iii) 15, (iv) 20, (v) 30, (vi) 60 and (vii) 120 minutes to arrive at the incident in each (A) of the last three calendar years and (B) month in 2022 to date, and what proportion of the total calls in each of these categories this represents.
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Question reference: S6W-09991
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-09460 by Humza Yousaf on 13 July 2022, by what date NHS boards had submitted applications to the Long COVID Support Fund, and whether any applications made by the 13 NHS boards ever had to be resubmitted due to rejection of proposals by the Strategic Network's Strategic Oversight Board, before approval given on 19 May 2022.
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Question reference: S6W-10011
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how the £12 million that it provided for the financial year 2021-22 to support the wellbeing of people working in health, social care and social work was (a) allocated and (b) spent, and whether it will provide a breakdown of how much was spent on each service that was allocated money.
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