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-22291
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its recent commitment to invest an additional £100 million in each of the next three years to reduce NHS waiting lists, what (a) modelling was undertaken to determine that waiting lists will be reduced by 100,000 by 2026 and (b) the estimated level of waiting lists by 2026 would be without this funding package.
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Question reference: S6W-22289
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to fund the recently announced additional £100 million in each of the next three years to reduce NHS waiting lists.
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Question reference: S6W-22292
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its recent commitment to invest an additional £100 million in each of the next three years to reduce NHS waiting lists, what the estimated reduction in waiting lists will be by the end of (a) 2024 and (b) 2025.
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Question reference: S6W-22290
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to allocate the recently announced additional £100 million in each of the next three years to reduce NHS waiting lists.
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Question reference: S6W-22570
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to the projected figures for (a) Additional Inpatient and Day case Activity, (b) Outpatient activity, and (c) Additional Diagnostic Procedures, as outlined in the NHS Recovery Plan, and in light of the commitments included in its Programme for Government 2023-24, (i) what modelling was used in preparing the data, (ii) whether the projected estimates for the financial year 2022-23 were delivered and (iii) whether revised projected figures will be published.
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Question reference: S6W-22567
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a list of the Specialty Delivery Groups that have been established to date by the Centre for Sustainable Delivery, including their (a) membership, (b) terms of reference and/or objectives and (c) outcomes (i) anticipated and (ii) achieved.
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Question reference: S6W-22494
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 16 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will set out the membership of the (a) Best Start Review Group and (b) Sub-Group on Neonatal Models of Care, broken down by the (i) duration and (ii) role of each person's membership of the group.
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Question reference: S6W-22467
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 14 November 2023
To ask Scottish Government how many additional allied health professional (AHP) training spaces have been created as a result of the increase in training provision, as outlined by the Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social care during his ministerial statement on winter planning and resilience on 24 October 2023, broken down by profession.
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Question reference: S6W-22466
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 14 November 2023
To ask Scottish Government, further to the Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care's ministerial statement on winter planning and resilience on 24 October 2023, how many of the "additional 1,000 nurses, midwives and allied health professionals" (AHPs) from overseas who have joined NHS Scotland over the past two years were AHPs, broken down by profession.
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Question reference: S6W-22473
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 14 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether there are exemptions from the Treatment Time Guarantee in certain specialities, and, if so, what these are.