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-19358
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 30 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what role the women who have had transvaginal mesh complications will have in implementing any recommendations that it accepts from the Transvaginal Mesh Case Record Review report.
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Question reference: S6W-19357
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 30 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to meet with NHS boards to discuss the implementation of the recommendations set out in the Transvaginal Mesh Case Record Review report, particularly those relating to consistency and cooperative working across NHS boards.
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Question reference: S6W-19355
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 29 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the findings and recommendations of the Transvaginal Mesh Case Record Review report.
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Question reference: S6W-18881
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to its plans to introduce a distinctly Scottish approach to apprenticeships, whether it has any plans to (a) introduce specific apprenticeships for allied health professionals and (b) expand existing bursaries for people to study health professions to also cover allied health professionals.
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Question reference: S6W-18562
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 15 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many doctors, who qualified through the Scottish Graduate Entry Medicine (ScotGEM) programme, have taken up posts within NHS Dumfries and Galloway since the programme was established.
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Question reference: S6W-18561
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 13 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many doctors have qualified through the Scottish Graduate Entry Medicine (ScotGEM) programme to date.
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Question reference: S6W-18560
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 13 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many participants in the Scottish Graduate Entry Medicine (ScotGEM) programme, who accepted a "return of service" bursary, have had to repay the bursary for not satisfying the return of service period, in each year since the programme was established.
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Question reference: S6W-18133
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 5 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when the Public Health (Restriction of Promotions) Bill will be introduced.
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Question reference: S6W-18132
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 5 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what action is planned to deliver on its ambition to halve childhood obesity by 2030, in light of reports that childhood obesity rates are continuing to rise.
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Question reference: S6W-18129
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 5 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the national child measurement programme in Scotland only measures the height and weight of children in P1, and not also in P7, as is routinely done in other parts of the UK.
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