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-01864
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether COVID-19 PCR tests cost more for travellers arriving in Scotland than they do for travellers arriving in other parts of the UK, and, if so, for what reason.
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Question reference: S6W-01862
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take to reduce the cost of COVID-19 PCR tests for travellers arriving in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-01712
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many clinical trials there currently are for cancer, and whether these have recommenced.
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Question reference: S6W-01268
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 9 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many people in each age group have reported experiencing symptoms of long COVID, also broken down by how many were not originally hospitalised due to the virus.
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Question reference: S6W-01269
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 9 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment has been made of the impact of the previous lifting of COVID-19 restrictions on the number of people developing long COVID, and how a move to level 0 might impact on numbers.
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Question reference: S6W-01271
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 9 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment has been carried out on the capacity of the existing (a) primary care and (b) rehabilitation services to support people who have long COVID.
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Question reference: S6W-01273
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 9 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the NHS workforce (a) has developed long COVID and (b) is absent due to reasons related to long COVID.
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Question reference: S6W-01536
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-18422 by Jeane Freeman on 13 September 2018, how many calls to the Scottish Ambulance Service have been responded to (a) within (i) under 10, (ii) 10 to 29, (iii) 30 to 59, and (iv) 60 to 120 and (b) over 120 minutes, in each year since 2018-19, broken down by triaged category of call.
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Question reference: S6W-01529
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what the target waiting time is for a colposcopy.
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Question reference: S6W-01751
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 22 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 6 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government by what date haematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) treatment for multiple sclerosis will be available to NHS patients.
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