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-05433
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 10 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what protections are in place for child witnesses in the judicial system.
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Question reference: S6W-05339
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 10 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its Fuel Poverty Strategy, due to be published by the end of 2021, and when the strategy will be implemented, as required by the Fuel Poverty (Targets, Definition and Strategy) (Scotland) Act 2019.
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Question reference: S6W-05150
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 10 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to implement in full the recommendations in the report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis, prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and, if so, what steps it will take to do so.
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Question reference: S6W-05283
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 10 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made in introducing a "red bag" scheme for patients to keep their belongings, medications, and information safe when in hospital, and which NHS boards are currently delivering the scheme.
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Question reference: S6W-05224
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 10 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether military aid for NHS Lanarkshire will be extended beyond 17 December 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-05170
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 10 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-04313 by Maree Todd on 3 December 2021, when regular injections for chronic pain sufferers will resume.
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Question reference: S6W-05159
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 10 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many meetings of the National Advisory Committee for Chronic Pain there have been; when they took place, and whether pain patients were invited to all of the meetings.
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Question reference: S6W-05155
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 10 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many pain patient representatives there are on the National Advisory Committee for Chronic Pain; how many patient representatives have resigned; when they resigned, and for what reason.
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Question reference: S6W-05127
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 10 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the finding of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society 2021 Workforce Wellbeing Survey that 33% of pharmacy workers have reported thinking of leaving the profession altogether, how it plans to relieve pressures on the pharmacy industry in general.
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Question reference: S6W-05130
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 10 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much it plans to invest in (a) training more pharmacy staff and (b) upskilling existing staff in order to decrease pressure on the pharmacy sector.
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