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-00916
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 5 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what engagement the Clinical Priorities Unit has had with patient representatives on the National Advisory Committee on Chronic Pain.
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Question reference: S6W-00914
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 5 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when the National Advisory Committee on Chronic Pain will report to Ministers on a new Framework on Chronic Pain Delivery.
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Question reference: S6W-00803
- 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 what arrangements have been put in place to help chronic pain patients who are overdue to receive pain relief injections, some of whom have not received an injection in 15 months.
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Question reference: S6W-00801
- 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 on what date it became aware of the view of the Faculty of Medicine that injections for pain relief could continue during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Question reference: S6W-00805
- 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 whether it monitors the quality of information that is provided to (a) the public and (b) MSPs by the Clinical Priorities Unit in order to ensure that it is accurate and up-to-date, in light of reports of chronic pain patients not being informed that expert advice allowed for injections to resume from 29 July 2020.
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Question reference: S6W-00804
- 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 how many patients have waited more than six months for their regular pain relief injections since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and whether plans for a "catch-up" programme will be put in place.
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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.
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Question reference: S6W-00806
- 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 what consideration it has given to the potential damage to the mental health of the chronic pain patients who are dependent on NHS specialist clinics, and who were unable to receive injections during a significant period of the COVID-19 lockdowns.
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Question reference: S6W-00701
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 2 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason locum pharmacists have been reportedly excluded from the financial arrangements that had allowed them to deliver COVID-19 vaccination sessions in the same way as locum doctors, optometrists and dentists, and what guidance it has issued to NHS boards regarding this.
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Question reference: S6W-00702
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 2 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding has been given to community pharmacy contractors to provide COVID-19 vaccinators, and what its response is to concerns that it is reportedly favouring the use of large and multinational pharmacy contractors and companies over locum pharmacists.