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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

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Question reference: S6W-09889

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 16 August 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many state secondary schools have had defibrillators installed, broken down by local authority

Question reference: S6W-09888

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 16 August 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many state primary schools have had defibrillators installed, broken down by local authority.

Question reference: S6W-09890

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 July 2022
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 16 August 2022

To ask the Scottish Government by when it anticipates that all registered defibrillators will be included in the defibrillator App that is used by ambulance crews to locate seriously ill patients.

The National Defibrillator Network Project, “The Circuit” developed by British Heart Foundation and Microsoft, is a UK-wide registry of defibrillators. It integrates with the existing Scottish Ambulance Service defibrillator database. In an incident of cardiac arrest, Scottish Ambulance Service call handlers use the database to locate nearby devices and direct bystanders to it.

The development and implementation of The Circuit is an operational matter for Scottish Ambulance Service, the British Heart Foundation and Microsoft, rather than Scottish Government.

Question reference: S6W-09613

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 July 2022
Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 15 July 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will confirm which budget line has been used to provide £65 million to the war effort in Ukraine.

The £65 million of funding being provided by the Scottish Government to support the war effort in Ukraine is capital funding that will be provided via the carried forward balance in the Scotland Reserve.

The Provisional Outturn statement on 23rd June advised Parliament that £183 million worth of capital underspends would be carried forward within the Scotland Reserve to support the 2022-23 Scottish Budget. The 2022-23 Scottish Budget included an assumption that £118 million of capital funding from the Scotland Reserve would be available to be utilised. The provisional outturn position therefore provides an excess carry forward of £65 million which is available to be utilised.

The allocation of this amount will be transparently reported in the forthcoming 2022-23 Autumn Budget Revision

Question reference: S6W-09612

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 July 2022
Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 8 July 2022

To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland statistics for 2021-22.

Question reference: S6O-01291

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 June 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the role that the COVID-19 booster vaccination programme will play in its Covid Recovery Strategy.

Question reference: S6O-01159

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 May 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what lessons can be learnt from Reform Scotland’s recent publication about the future of the Scottish National Investment Bank.

Question reference: S6O-01096

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how it will respond to the UK Government’s consultation, launched on 9 May, regarding the proposed expansion of its Warm Home Discount scheme.

Question reference: S6F-00989

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 April 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 April 2022

To ask the First Minister whether she can provide an update on the Scottish Government's strategy to include libraries in the policy to address the attainment gap.

Question reference: S6O-00956

Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact on travel in Scotland of the recent changes to the Highway Code.