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-06471
- Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what capital investment plans are in place for the delivery of new health and social care centres in Gourock and Port Glasgow.
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Question reference: S6W-06518
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much each NHS board has spent on external legal support in connection with service user complaints, in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S6W-06505
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much each NHS board has spent on contracts for external training and coaching consultancy, broken down by contract, in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S6W-06506
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much each NHS board has spent on contracts for external speech-making consultancy, broken down by contract, in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S6W-06446
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what additional support, including technical operating support, will be available to ensure equality of access to a closed loop system for people with type 1 diabetes who would benefit from the device.
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Question reference: S6W-06448
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-03941 by Keith Brown on 11 November 2021, which organisations were represented at the roundtable on 4 November 2021, and how concerns about the reported rise in incidents of drink spiking and spiking by injection are being addressed across the sector.
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Question reference: S6W-06423
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-05517 by Lorna Slater on 24 January 2022, whether the 27% figure was calculated without accounting for landfill releasing less biogenic CO2 than incineration, and what its position is on this matter.
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Question reference: S6W-06367
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what mental health support is available for (a) adults and (b) children and young people with cystic fibrosis (i) in general and (ii) who are receiving treatments such as Kaftrio.
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Question reference: S6W-06377
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to improve public awareness of paint recycling and reuse initiatives.
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Question reference: S6W-06440
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to prevent children being infected with COVID-19 in schools, in light of reports of recent studies that suggest a link between COVID-19 infection and the development of type 1 diabetes in children.