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-01291
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 26 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government by what date the breast cancer self-referral scheme for over-70s will resume.
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Question reference: S6W-01225
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether Public Health Scotland is required to score its publications on whether research items criticise the Scottish Government and, if so, whether any such requirement will be removed.
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Question reference: S6W-00800
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) chronic pain patients were told that advice from the Faculty of Pain Medicine approved the use of injections for pain relief from 29 July 2020, (b) prior to April 2021, this advice was disregarded by the Clinical Priorities Unit (CPU) and (c) the CPU only began issuing this guidance in April 2021 after a patient raised concerns in relation to the advice from the faculty not being taken into account, and what the reasons are for its position on each of these matters.
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Question reference: S6W-01052
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding has been provided to each NHS board to run additional gynaecology clinics and offer fast-tracked appointments for women incorrectly excluded from the cervical screening programme.
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Question reference: S6W-01096
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS dental consultations there have been in each year since 2017-18.
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Question reference: S6W-01053
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government on what date (a) the errors resulting in the exclusion of some women from the cervical screening programme were discovered and (b) a further review was commissioned.
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Question reference: S6W-01054
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-01044 by John Swinney on 24 June 2021, whether it will provide the scientific evidence on which it based its decision to allow fans in Murrayfield Stadium subject to social distancing of 1.15 metres, as opposed to 1 or 2 metres.
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Question reference: S6W-01050
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government with what frequency audits of the cervical screening programme are carried out, and in which years prior to 2020 audits have been carried out.
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Question reference: S6W-01097
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many emergency NHS dental consultations there have been in each month since January 2020.
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Question reference: S6W-01051
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, since the new methodology for invasive cancer audits was produced in 2014, how many audits have been carried out, and of which services.
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