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: S6O-01492
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 October 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will instruct Scottish Water to freeze water rates for 2023-24 to help with the cost of living crisis.
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Question reference: S6W-11471
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 26 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what data it holds on the level of unmet need in adult social care, as of 1 April 2022.
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Question reference: S6W-11470
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 26 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has undertaken a cost-benefit analysis of implementing a pay increase to £15 per hour for social care staff in tackling delayed discharge.
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Question reference: S6W-11406
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 25 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has established the short life working group tasked with making recommendations on how clinically-appropriate use of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) equipment in the provision of NHS community eyecare services can be more effectively supported, and, if so, what the membership of the group is, and when the group last met.
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Question reference: S6W-11407
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 25 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has established the short life working group tasked with undertaking a national review of domiciliary eye care services provision, and, if it has, what the membership of the group is, and when the group last met.
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Question reference: S6W-11477
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 25 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much money it expects to spend on the use of private companies in undertaking contracts for work relating to the establishment of a National Care Service in the financial year of (a) 2022-23, (b) 2023-24 and (c) 2024-25, broken down by the purpose of any such spending.
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Question reference: S6W-11466
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 25 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much it expects to recoup from asking Integration Joint Boards to return any unspent COVID-19 funding.
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Question reference: S6W-11472
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 25 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what modelling it has been undertaken to calculate the updated level of unmet need in adult social care since the publication of the Independent Review of Adult Social Care.
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Question reference: S6F-01451
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 October 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 October 2022
To ask the First Minister what assistance the Scottish Government is providing to those with complex disabilities to cope with the cost of living crisis.
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Question reference: S6O-01450
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 October 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what activities it plans to hold to commemorate 800 years since Dumbarton became a royal burgh.
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