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
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Question reference: S6W-06296
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to increase access to psychological therapies and other mental health support for people with kidney disease.
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Question reference: S6W-06293
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has commissioned work to establish the (a) set-up and (b) running costs of a National Care Service, and what (i) other assessment it has made of these costs and (ii) it estimates these costs will be.
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Question reference: S6W-06213
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when it anticipates the UK National Screening Committee will make a decision and confirm its position on targeted lung cancer screening that could take place in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-06212
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-31534 by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 September 2020, whether it will provide an update on the development of a protocol for NHS boards that wish to undertake pilot programmes for lung cancer screening, in light of this being planned following the Scottish Screening Committee meeting in November 2019.
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Question reference: S6W-06214
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it can take to expedite a decision and position from the UK National Screening Committee on targeted lung cancer screening that could take place in Scotland, in light of this being under review since February 2020.
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Question reference: S6W-06215
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in addition to the small academic study funded by the Chief Scientist Office, whether it will consider a wider operational pilot programme of targeted lung health checks.
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Question reference: S6W-06220
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how it will formulate plans to create new models of care for cardiac diagnosis and meet the recommended waiting times for echocardiography in the Heart Valve Voice report, State of the Nation.
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Question reference: S6O-00779
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 February 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the reported comments of Glasgow City Council's new Executive Director of Education regarding reinstating the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy.
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Question reference: S6W-06218
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will assess the feasibility of conducting stethoscope checks and placing echocardiograms in community care settings in order to improve the detection and diagnosis of heart valve disease.
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Question reference: S6W-06219
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how it will adopt the recommendations in the Heart Valve Voice report, State of the Nation, on reducing variation in heart valve disease treatment and waiting times for heart valve disease detection, diagnosis and treatment.