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.
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To ask the Scottish Government what action it can take to ensure that, where schools offer a cashless catering service, P1-P3 pupils who do not take the free meal option are unable to substitute this with sweets and other general tuck.
To ask the Scottish Government what procedures are in place for situations when a person from Scotland phones the NHS24 helpline from another part of the UK or abroad to seek urgent medical advice from NHS Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government what NHS24’s procedure is in situations where its helpline receives a call from someone resident in another part of the UK or abroad on behalf of someone living in Scotland who is in urgent need of medical advice from NHS Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government, what responsibilities the Scottish Public Services Ombudsman (SPSO) has in the reviewing of complaints made about the Care Inspectorate and what information it has regarding whether the SPSO plans to review these.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason there is no mechanism for care providers to appeal the grades assigned to their quality of care during an inspection by the Care Inspectorate, and what its position is on introducing such a process.
To ask the Scottish Government how it is assisting Edinburgh City Council and the Edinburgh Mela Festival Board to ensure a successful 2017 festival.
To ask the Scottish Government how it promotes the (a) Cultural Gifts and (b) Acceptance in Lieu Scheme to help increase the number of cultural artefacts in the public domain.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the assurances that it has received from Boston Scientific regarding the possible use of counterfeit material in surgical mesh.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of all grants that have been approved each year by the Climate Challenge Fund, and what criteria are used to determine whether to issue a grant.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-02070 by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 September 2016, what (a) monitoring and (b) auditing of the grants that are issued by the Climate Challenge Fund (i) has been carried out each year, (ii) is being carried and (iii) is planned.