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-13285
- Asked by: Tess White, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 5 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-11581 by Kevin Stewart on 28 October 2022, whether a decision has been made regarding replacing the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board in its current format when it is disbanded in March 2023, and what role organisations representing the third sector can expect to have in any future strategic oversight and delivery of perinatal and infant mental health services.
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Question reference: S6W-13287
- Asked by: Tess White, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 5 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many claims have been made to the Mother and Baby Unit Family Fund since its introduction in 2020, broken down by month, and, of those, how many were made by individuals residing in the North East Scotland region.
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Question reference: S6W-13286
- Asked by: Tess White, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 5 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on work to establish a mother and baby unit in the North East Scotland region, in light of the consultation analysis on the options to increase mother and baby unit capacity, which was published in August 2022.
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Question reference: S6O-01676
- Asked by: Tess White, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 December 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has taken a decision regarding the extension of the temporary provisions in the Coronavirus (Recovery and Reform) (Scotland) Act 2022.
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Question reference: S6T-01010
- Asked by: Tess White, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 28 November 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the cyber-attack on 4 August 2022 which reportedly targeted NHS Scotland's patient management software.
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Question reference: S6F-01565
- Asked by: Tess White, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 November 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 November 2022
To ask the First Minister what assessment the Scottish Government has made of the emergency response to flooding in the north east of Scotland in recent days.
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Question reference: S6W-11987
- Asked by: Tess White, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 November 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 18 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many women aged 75 and over have self-referred for a breast screening appointment since the programme restarted on 29 August 2022, broken down by screening centre, and whether it plans to widen the eligibility criteria for this age group to self-refer to the breast screening programme.
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Question reference: S6W-11583
- Asked by: Tess White, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 1 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding has been allocated to the Ready Scotland campaign in (a) each of the past three years and (b) 2022, and how much of this funding has been (i) spent on or (ii) allocated to (A) digital, (B) radio and (C) other forms of advertising.
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Question reference: S6W-11581
- Asked by: Tess White, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 28 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Perinatal and Infant Mental Health Programme Board will be extended beyond March 2023.
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Question reference: S6F-01459
- Asked by: Tess White, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 October 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 October 2022
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine Scotland’s reported warning that the NHS winter resilience plan “will not be in place in time to prevent further harm to patients and staff this winter”.