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-13599
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S5W-13144 and S5W-13146 by Shona Robison on 19 December 2017, whether it will provide a breakdown of the measures that (a) it and (b) NHS Grampian are taking to recover and stabilise the NHS board's services and waiting times performance; what analysis will be carried out to determine the effectiveness of these measures; what timescale it has set for the NHS board to meet the 18-week referral to treatment standard, and what action ministers will take if it does not achieve this.
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Question reference: S5W-13902
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 24 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to a recent report by the British Retail Consortium, which suggests that there has been a 4.7% decline in retail footfall in Scotland, and what analysis it plans of the potential impact on the sector of its proposed changes to income tax.
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Question reference: S5W-13724
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to offer routine evening and weekend GP appointments, similar to the approach being introduced in England.
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Question reference: S5W-13499
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many visits to Scotland by non-UK resident personnel it has funded regarding matters related to the NHS in each of the last three years, and how much it spent on each.
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Question reference: S5W-13820
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 12 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 18 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with HMRC to ensure that the introduction timescale of the proposed new income tax bands do not increase the potential for taxpayers to receive incorrect pension relief.
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Question reference: S5W-13726
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position on introducing a service such as the NHSquicker smartphone app, which is being trialled in Devon and Cornwall and informs people regarding how busy their area's health services are prior to considering making a booking.
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Question reference: S5W-13727
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what technology has recently been or is being developed to allow people to access health (a) services and (b) information.
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Question reference: S5W-13728
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in order to help alleviate any undue pressure on GP surgeries and A&E departments, how it encourages people to visit the most appropriate part of the health service for treatment, and what technology it uses to support this approach.
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Question reference: S5W-13593
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 11 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of revenue raised through the tax measures proposed in the Draft Budget will be directly allocated on measures to grow the economy.
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Question reference: S5W-13591
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 11 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and the Constitution describing the measures in the Draft Budget as resulting in "additional revenue", what its response is to the Scottish Fiscal Commission’s reported recent estimations of its non-saving, non-dividends income tax revenue for the coming years as being lower than those that were made in February 2017.
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