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: S4W-16859
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 August 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 September 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether legislation that contains a requirement to meet the public interest specifies the matters to be considered in order to do so.
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Question reference: S4W-16862
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 August 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 18 September 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what ongoing research programmes have received funding of more than £500,000 from the Chief Scientist Office since 2009.
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Question reference: S4W-16992
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 18 September 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) diagnoses of and (b) deaths from cervical cancer there have been in each of the last five years, also broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S4W-16861
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 August 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 17 September 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of research findings from the USA and Australia that vaccinating children with 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV7) reduced hospital admission rates, what research it is undertaking on the impact of introducing a pneumococcal vaccination programme.
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Question reference: S4W-16994
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 12 September 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of eligible women has been screened for cervical cancer in each of the last 10 years, also broken down by (a) NHS board and (b) age group.
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Question reference: S4O-02388
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 September 2013
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 September 2013
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish its response to The Review of NHS Pharmaceutical Care of Patients in the Community in Scotland.
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Question reference: S4O-02341
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 August 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 4 September 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing to the owners of the former Kishorn oil yard in Wester Ross to regenerate the facility.
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Question reference: S4W-16423
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 July 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 1 August 2013
To ask the Scottish Government who is being invited to join the expert ferry group that is being established by Transport Scotland; which service users will be invited to join; whether the meetings will be held in public, and whether the minutes of the meetings will be published.
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Question reference: S4W-16430
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 July 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 1 August 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what the remit will be of the expert ferry group that is being established by Transport Scotland.
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Question reference: S4W-15229
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 14 June 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a membership list for the Scottish Coal Industry Sector Taskforce and the criteria by which the members were chosen.
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