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-04015
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 10 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether special public transport arrangements are being made to ensure that key workers, such as nurses, are still able to get to their workplaces in the event that rail workers take industrial action during COP26.
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Question reference: S6W-03885
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 10 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many people aged 70 to 79 who are eligible for their COVID-19 booster vaccine have received this dose, and by what date all eligible people aged 70 to 79 will have received their COVID-19 booster vaccine.
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Question reference: S6W-04082
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 November 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 9 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government by what date (a) COVID-19 guidance for NHS dentists will be revised and (b) dental practices will be able to return to normal capacity.
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Question reference: S6W-03808
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 8 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that officials from the Clinical Priorities Unit told chronic pain patients that gestures such as tutting or eye rolling at a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Chronic Pain could lead to dismissal as a volunteer patient representative and that such behaviour would be reported to ministers to obtain a decision on their continued membership of the committee.
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Question reference: S6W-03809
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 8 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports of a breakdown in trust between chronic pain patients and its Clinical Priorities Unit, whether it will transfer responsibility for chronic pain policy from the unit to another part of the civil service.
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Question reference: S6W-03608
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 8 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS boards have currently suspended elective surgery, and in the case of each NHS board (a) for how long has the surgery been suspended and (b) when will the surgery resume.
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Question reference: S6W-03615
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 8 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when it expects the multi-disciplinary teams, announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in his statement to the Parliament on 5 October 2021, Health and Social Care (Winter Planning), to be in place.
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Question reference: S6W-03611
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 8 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many acute beds are currently available in the NHS, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S6W-03613
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 8 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much of the funding announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in his statement to the Parliament on 5 October 2021, Health and Social Care (Winter Planning), is recurring.
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Question reference: S6W-02620
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 8 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the evidence on which it has based its COVID-19 advice for people who are shielding and immunosuppressed.
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