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-11165
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what specific actions NHS boards can take to respond to and manage closures of pharmacy branches.
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Question reference: S6W-11143
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many long COVID clinics have been created in Scotland, and where.
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Question reference: S6W-11166
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to increase the range of actions that NHS boards can take when pharmacy branches close without an adequate reason for doing so.
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Question reference: S6W-11168
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will empower the Care Inspectorate to regulate the business behaviour of companies that operate community pharmacies, including in relation to their premises, staffing levels, safety and treatment of patients.
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Question reference: S6W-10981
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 6 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S6W-08907 and S6W-08908 by Michael Matheson on 15 June 2022, how it reconciles the answer given by the Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero, Energy and Transport in the Parliament on 18 May 2022 that Scottish Water's cash balance is “substantially allocated at any time to investment projects” with the information in the written answers that, during the 2015-21 regulatory period, after spending £348 million from reserves held at the beginning of the 2015-21 regulatory period on projects not delivered in the preceding regulatory period, reserve levels grew to £400 million and, on average, investment spending from reserves was 20% of annual reserves held in any one year.
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Question reference: S6W-11012
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 4 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its direct involvement in the setting of water charges for 2022-23, whether it will use its powers of direction to require it to be consulted or have its approval sought by Scottish Water on the setting of charges for the year 2023-24, in order to ensure that charges are set at a level that is affordable by households and businesses, in light of the current high levels of inflation.
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Question reference: S6W-11013
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 4 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its direct involvement in the setting of water charges for 2022-23, whether it will use its powers of direction to require the Water Industry Commission to consult it or seek its approval on any actions that the Commission proposes that could require, or otherwise press, Scottish Water to propose a water charges scheme that would raise charges above the rate of inflation in 2023-24 and beyond.
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Question reference: S6W-11011
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 4 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether there is (a) sufficient flexibility in the interpretation of and (b) a need to clarify or revise the policy and objectives for the delivery of water services for the current regulatory period to ensure they are consistent with delivering levels of water charges for 2022-23 and beyond that are considered by Scottish Ministers to be affordable, in light of the current high levels of inflation.
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Question reference: S6W-10866
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 4 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers there to be a parity of treatment between blood cancers and solid tumour cancers, and how it will improve treatment for blood cancers.
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Question reference: S6W-10991
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 3 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what work is being undertaken on a national lung cancer screening programme in line with pilots that are progressing in England, Wales and Northern Ireland.
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