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.
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To ask the Scottish Government whether any jobs related to the National Care Service are being recruited by Scotland Excel, and, if so, what these roles are.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Life at age 14: initial findings from the Growing Up in Scotland study findings that 42.7% of young people asked, admitted that they had a period in their life, lasting several days or longer, when they felt depressed, and 13.9% said they had sought help from a mental health professional.
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has directly provided towards arts and culture (a) in the Aberdeen City Council area and (b) to Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums in each year from 2012 to 2022.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of how to improve the regulation of products in the medical nutrition industry.
To ask the Scottish Government (a) whether and (b) how it works with the UK Department of Health and Social Care to tackle medical malnutrition in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter from the Water Industry Commission to Scottish Water of 3 February 2022 regarding water charges for 2022-23, what its position is on any action being taken by the Water Industry Commission on the matters raised in the letter that may result in Scottish Water raising water charges above the Consumer Prices Index (CPI) for 2023-24, in light of the potential impact that this may have in increasing costs for households while forecasts of CPI inflation remain high.
To ask the Scottish Government whether Scottish Water is under any regulatory obligation from the 2021-27 final determination of charges to raise its charges to the limit of the average charge cap set for the period.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to publish data on performance against clinical prioritisation, to enable greater transparency on how NHS boards manage waiting lists, and if this is the case, when it will do so.
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To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the development and wellbeing assessment tool currently being piloted by South Lanarkshire Health and Social Care Partnership could be a viable and cost-effective option to reduce screening waiting times for young people with suspected neurodevelopmental conditions.
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made on the work to make an informed policy decision on the contribution of North Sea production to the global climate emergency and to Scotland’s economy, security and wellbeing, as outlined in the Scottish Government and Scottish Green Party Shared Policy Programme, and at what specific stage this work is currently at.