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-07925
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what the mileage rate is for (a) NHS staff and (b) social care staff in the public sector.
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Question reference: S6W-07922
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS staff are captured by the abatement of pension rules that is currently in place.
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Question reference: S6W-07712
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 31 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 27 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take to ensure that universities in Scotland adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance definition of antisemitism.
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Question reference: S6W-07734
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 01 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 26 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to use prophylactic treatments as a way to prevent COVID-19 in those at highest risk.
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Question reference: S6W-07938
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 26 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will continue to provide COVID-19 testing for (a) people who were on the shielding list and (b) their carers.
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Question reference: S6W-07912
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 26 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the reasons given for people's dissatisfaction with the NHS, as set out in The King’s Fund report, Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2021: Results from the British Social Attitudes survey, regarding waiting times, staff shortages and lack of adequate resourcing are (a) matters that apply to government and not to NHS staff and (b) an accurate reflection of the situation in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-07911
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 26 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that public satisfaction with the NHS has dropped to its lowest level since 1997, according to The King’s Fund report, Public satisfaction with the NHS and social care in 2021: Results from the British Social Attitudes survey.
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Question reference: S6W-07929
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 26 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish a clear timetable for the implementation of the Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019, as called for in the Royal College of Nursing report, The Nursing Workforce in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-07944
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 26 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will review its decision not to undertake an awareness-raising campaign for thrombosis.
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Question reference: S6W-07715
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 31 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 26 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the £10 million announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in September 2021 to support the response to long COVID, how much of this has been spent, and on what.
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