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: S4O-03993
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 January 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 February 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve survival rates from brain cancers.
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Question reference: S4W-24026
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 January 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 23 January 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that people who have been provided with NHS hearing aids with the assistance of Action on Hearing Loss Scotland’s Hear to Help service will have their devices maintained or replaced after funding for the scheme is withdrawn in March 2015.
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Question reference: S4W-24027
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 January 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 23 January 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of funding for Action on Hearing Loss Scotland’s Hear to Help service being withdrawn from March 2015, what contingencies it has introduced to deal with any (a) increase in demand and (b) impact on waiting times at audiology departments in NHS (i) Greater Glasgow and Clyde, (ii) Ayrshire and Arran, (iii) Tayside and (iv) Borders.
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Question reference: S4W-17054
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 September 2013
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 16 January 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what the hospitality bill was for events held in (a) Bute House and (b) Edinburgh Castle in (i) 2010-11, (ii) 2011-12 and (iii) 2012-13.
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Question reference: S4W-23588
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 December 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 19 December 2014
To ask the Scottish Government whether NHS boards can use the New Medicines Fund to meet the costs of products that have been rejected by the Scottish Medicines Consortium but for which funding requests have been or will be made using the (a) individual patient treatment request and (b) peer approved clinical system process.
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Question reference: S4W-23589
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 December 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 19 December 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it will allocate to the New Medicines Fund in each of its first five years, and for how long the fund will operate.
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Question reference: S4W-22757
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 06 October 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 3 November 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what safeguards (a) are and (b) will be put in place to ensure that the SNP representatives on The Smith Commission and their advisers cannot use the services of Scottish Government (i) staff and (ii) resources.
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Question reference: S4O-03656
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 October 2014
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 November 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what safeguards are in place to ensure that sex offenders are appropriately rehoused.
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Question reference: S4W-22765
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 October 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 23 October 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has made available to address hepatitis C as part of the Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Framework in each of the last four years.
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Question reference: S4W-22767
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 October 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 23 October 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it will make available for addressing hepatitis C in the revised Sexual Health and Blood Borne Virus Framework due to be published in the summer of 2015.
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