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: S5W-35294
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 24 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of clinically extremely vulnerable people have received a COVID-19 vaccination.
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Question reference: S5W-35631
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 12 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what investment will be required to disperse the ophthalmology services provided by the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion in Edinburgh to Livingston.
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Question reference: S5W-35630
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 12 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the funding for the relocation of the Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion to the BioQuarter site In Edinburgh, which it had initially approved, was cancelled; whether it will publish the timeline of the process that it used to reach this decision; what advice it has received from (a) clinicians and (b) ophthalmologists regarding the cancellation, and what consultation it carried out with (i) clinicians, (ii) ophthalmologists and (iii) service users.
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Question reference: S5W-35634
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 12 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the establishment of a new centre of excellence for eye treatment in Edinburgh.
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Question reference: S5W-35632
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 12 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what costs and savings might arise from the cancellation of the relocation of Princess Alexandra Eye Pavilion to the BioQuarter site in Edinburgh.
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Question reference: S5W-33966
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 11 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that the work toward achieving net-zero emissions does not lead to more households facing fuel poverty.
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Question reference: S5W-33968
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 11 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will introduce a support programme for rural home owners, particularly in off-gas areas, to ensure that they are not adversely affected by the costs of moving to low-carbon heat.
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Question reference: S5O-05135
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it will utilise its public sector procurement to ensure that companies in receipt of public sector contracts pay staff the real living wage and provide longer-term employment and training opportunities.
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Question reference: S5W-35383
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 1 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether BS 8414 fire tests allow flammable cladding to be used on buildings and, in light of the position taken by the other UK administrations, whether it will ban their use.
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Question reference: S5F-04820
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 February 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 February 2021
To ask the First Minister how the consequentials from the recently announced £3.5 billion of funding to replace unsafe cladding in England will be allocated, and whether buildings under 18 metres will be included in any grant scheme.