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-06864
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 April 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 May 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what contingency plans are in place to protect patients in NHS facilities affected by power cuts.
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Question reference: S4W-06866
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 April 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 May 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what safeguards are in place to ensure that NHS emergency power systems are operational at all times.
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Question reference: S4W-06865
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 April 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 May 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what requirement it places on NHS boards to have emergency power systems at clinical sites.
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Question reference: S4W-06869
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 April 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 May 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive whether third parties responsible for the management of NHS facilities have the same obligations regarding patient safety as the NHS.
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Question reference: S4W-06867
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 April 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 2 May 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance it provides to NHS boards regarding the maintenance of emergency power systems.
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Question reference: S4W-06860
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 April 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 26 April 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made on implementing the recommendations in Review of Fatal Accident Inquiry Legislation: The Report.
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Question reference: S4O-00931
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 April 2012
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 April 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what progress is being made in delivering reductions in class sizes in early years.
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Question reference: S4W-06285
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 19 March 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 4 April 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to introduce a land remediation grant to help release brownfield sites for development.
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Question reference: S4W-05607
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Bruce Crawford on 13 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what additional (a) administrative, (b) regulatory, (c) legislative, (d) emergency and (e) other powers have been devolved to the Parliament since May 1999.
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Question reference: S4W-05402
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 February 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 8 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it met the Sustainable Procurement Action Plan objective that every public body should have a strategy for awarding at least one contract to a supported business or factory by 30 November 2010.
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