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-20792
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 August 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 19 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the reported announcement by the UK Government in June 2023 of funding for the national roll-out of a targeted lung cancer screening programme across England, what plans it has in place for the roll-out of a national lung cancer screening programme in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6O-02535
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports of significant issues in transporting prisoners from custody to court.
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Question reference: S6O-02501
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 September 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reported plans by NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to reduce the number of community link workers embedded in GP practices in deprived areas of Glasgow by one third, due to Scottish Government funding cuts.
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Question reference: S6O-02479
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 August 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has conducted any analysis of how many deaths on the A9 could have been prevented if it had been fully dualled.
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Question reference: S6W-19888
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 8 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has assessed the impact of any lack of investment in tackling any staff shortages, in chronic pain services in secondary care, on GP practices and the number of GP referrals to secondary care.
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Question reference: S6W-19336
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 July 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 8 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter from the Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care on 27 April 2023, whether the two recently made permanent psychologist posts, providing specialist support for teenagers and young adults in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and NHS Grampian, have the remit of providing support for young cancer patients across the whole of Scotland, or whether they provide support only for young cancer patients within those NHS boards, and, if it is the case that the two posts provide support across the whole of Scotland, what the total number is of young people that have access to their support.
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Question reference: S6W-19889
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 31 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government for what reasons it has reportedly not allocated new money from its £19 billion health and care budget to NHS boards to treat the estimated 800,000 people in Scotland experiencing chronic pain.
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Question reference: S6W-18477
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 27 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much has been spent on (a) prescribed and (b) non-prescribed contraceptives in each year since 2018-19, broken down by (i) type of contraceptive and (ii) the number of contraceptives distributed.
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Question reference: S6W-18483
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Natalie Don on 25 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government (a) what the uptake has been of and (b) how much has been spent on its Milk and Healthy Snack Scheme in each financial year since 2021-22.
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Question reference: S6W-18480
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 June 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 24 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding has been allocated to (a) NHS Pharmacy First Scotland and (b) Community Pharmacy Scotland in each year since 2018-19.