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-16922
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 06 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 21 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many people Social Security Scotland has written to in order to let them know that they (a) are entitled to and (b) will receive a Winter Heating Payment.
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Question reference: S6W-16921
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 06 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 21 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the Winter Heating Payment, (a) how many
people and (b) what percentage of the total number of those eligible requested
the payment by paper form, and how many of those received the payment by 31
March 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-16142
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether there is a pathway in place for people with a congenital visual impairment who have had a stroke.
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Question reference: S6W-16063
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what work it is undertaking to determine how many (a) Deaf and (b) disabled people died during the COVID-19 pandemic as a result of (i) contracting the disease and (ii) any reasons associated with the disease, such as loss of social care support.
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Question reference: S6W-16064
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to identify how many (a) Deaf and (b) disabled people who died during the COVID-19 pandemic had (i) a voluntary and (ii) an involuntary do-not-resuscitate order in place.
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Question reference: S6W-16361
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government (a) what plans it has and (b) when it will decide on how to fund an audit of Scotland's Fracture Liaison Services, following the approval of this audit by the National Audit Programme Board in April 2022.
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Question reference: S6O-02109
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 April 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the reported £21 million of budget reductions for health and social care in Glasgow.
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Question reference: S6W-16080
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 11 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it monitors bullying of Deaf and disabled children at a national level, and what steps it is taking to tackle bullying of Deaf and disabled children in schools.
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Question reference: S6F-01981
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 March 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 March 2023
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to the poverty statistics published last week in the report, Poverty and Income Inequality in Scotland 2019-22.
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Question reference: S6W-15935
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 27 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of eligible people have received the Winter Heating Payment to date.