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
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Question reference: S6W-00789
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what monitoring and reporting will be undertaken on mesh removal surgery carried out at the Scottish Centre for Excellence on Mesh.
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Question reference: S6W-00791
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it can give a statutory underpinning to the current effective ban on the use of mesh, in light of the effective ban being in place at the discretion of Ministers only.
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Question reference: S6W-00792
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much of the £1 million mesh support fund has been allocated.
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Question reference: S6W-00793
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when it will bring forward a bill to enable women to reclaim the private costs of mesh removal.
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Question reference: S6W-00646
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 12 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what resources were made available to health and social care partnerships to facilitate home working by social workers.
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Question reference: S6W-00650
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 7 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what advice was given to health and social care partnerships in relation to the discharge of patients from hospitals to care homes, during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Question reference: S6W-00797
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 7 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it monitors the time taken between a solicitor requesting an AW1[2] report for a guardianship application and receiving the report.
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Question reference: S6W-00796
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 7 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what the consequences for individuals are of delays to the issuing of AW1[2] reports for guardianship applications.
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Question reference: S6W-00649
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 5 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what advice was given to hospitals on the discharge of older people from hospitals to care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Question reference: S6W-00802
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 5 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason some chronic pain patients reportedly did not receive pain relief injections for nine months, during the COVID-19 pandemic.