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-02450
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many breast cancer screenings have taken place in each month since the start of 2019.
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Question reference: S6W-02451
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many cervical cancer screenings have taken place in each month since the start of 2019.
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Question reference: S6W-02449
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many abdominal aortic aneurysm screenings have taken place in each month since the start of 2019.
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Question reference: S6W-02420
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to improve the early diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS).
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Question reference: S6W-02419
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what the (a) average and (b) longest waiting time has been since January 2019 for multiple sclerosis (MS) patients from diagnosis to receiving disease modifying therapy, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S6W-02453
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many pregnancy screenings have taken place in each month since the start of 2019.
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Question reference: S6W-02421
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what work is being done to better understand the early symptoms of multiple sclerosis (MS).
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Question reference: S6W-02448
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many newborn screenings have taken place in each month since the start of 2019.
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Question reference: S6W-02407
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-01147 by Maree Todd on 29 July 2021, what measures it is taking to improve the efficacy of COVID-19 antibody testing, in light of reports that current testing is unreliable.
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Question reference: S6W-02330
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to allowing people living in Scotland who are travelling abroad to use lateral flow tests (LFT), rather than the more expensive PCR tests.
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