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: S4F-02673
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 March 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 March 2015
To ask the First Minister what the implications for Scotland are of the UK Budget.
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Question reference: S4F-02654
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 09 March 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 March 2015
To ask the First Minister what the impact on rural businesses and communities will be of Royal Mail's decision to reduce collection times at 3,300 Scottish postboxes.
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Question reference: S4O-04115
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 March 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how many additional whole time equivalent staff are employed in NHS Ayrshire and Arran compared with 2007 and what impact this has had on patient care.
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Question reference: S4O-04081
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 February 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 4 March 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what the percentage reduction in patient mortality has been in NHS Ayrshire hospitals since 2007, and how many lives are estimated to have been saved.
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Question reference: S4W-24480
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 February 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 25 February 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to provide enhanced screening for (a) maple syrup urine disease, (b) homocystinuria, (c) glutaric acidemia type 1 and (d) isovaleric acidemia and, if so, when such a service will commence.
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Question reference: S4W-23987
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 January 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 22 January 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-23683 by Richard Lochhead on 9 January 2015, for what reason it plans to wait until 2016 before announcing the next steps in relation to the introduction of the compulsory microchipping of dogs.
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Question reference: S4O-03963
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 January 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 January 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to grow the North Ayrshire economy.
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Question reference: S4W-23989
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 January 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 21 January 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what steps are being taken to make lifeline ferry services to island communities more robust in winter.
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Question reference: S4O-03925
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 January 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 January 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to recognise Holocaust Memorial Day and the 70th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz in 2015.
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Question reference: S4W-23683
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 December 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 9 January 2015
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason no date has yet been set for the introduction of compulsory microchipping of dogs and when such a decision will be taken.
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