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-05678
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment has been made of how NHS Education for Scotland (NES) can work with the Scottish Stoma Nurse Forum to develop a framework of post-graduate educational and clinical preparation requirements for stoma care nurses, in line with the NES Career Development Framework and the Chief Nursing Officer Directorate's Transforming Roles Programme.
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Question reference: S6W-05681
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what the current ratio is of people who need stoma care to specialist stoma nurses in NHS Scotland, and what assessment it has made of how this compares with the ratio in the NHS elsewhere in the UK.
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Question reference: S6W-05459
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether its short life working group on tackling prostitution will include representation from sex worker-led organisations.
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Question reference: S6W-05893
- Asked by: Evelyn Tweed, MSP for Stirling, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many schools have been built or refurbished since 2017, or are in the planning stage, in the Stirling local authority area.
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Question reference: S6W-05808
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether people who participated in the Novavax trial will be recognised as fully vaccinated on the NHS Scotland COVID Status app.
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Question reference: S6W-05800
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-05091 by Humza Yousaf on 23 December 2021, how many referrals have been made to Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland’s Long COVID Support Service in each month since the service was established.
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Question reference: S6W-05661
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how Scottish-domiciled individuals who received a COVID-19 vaccine in the United States can prove their vaccination status.
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Question reference: S6W-05569
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing to businesses and the voluntary sector to support key services affected by the Omicron variant of COVID-19.
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Question reference: S6W-05485
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 06 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what specific consultation was carried out with local authorities prior to its announcement that, from 27 December 2021, nightclubs would be closed for three weeks, and on what date any consultation was first carried out.
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Question reference: S6W-05777
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 20 January 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is the case that the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) Yellow card system, including the Genpact UK artificial intelligence tool, is used to monitor and process COVID-19 vaccine adverse drug reactions occurring in Scotland and, if it is not the case, what monitoring system is in use.