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-16385
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 May 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 June 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Cycling Action Plan for Scotland requiring a review of the Trunk Road Cycling Initiative with a commitment "to improve cycling and walking infrastructure around trunk roads when the opportunity presents", and a petition calling for legislation in this regard, what action it is taking to ensure that such opportunities are taken in relation to the development of the Sheriffhall roundabout.
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Question reference: S5W-16783
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 May 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 5 June 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how the number of whole-time equivalent (a) doctors and (b) nurses per head of population in Scotland compares with other OECD countries.
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Question reference: S5W-16386
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 May 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 30 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the estimated scheme cost of the preferred option for the new Sheriffhall roundabout of between £73 million and £87 million, what plans it has to use the remainder of the £120 million set aside in the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Region Deal for improvements to the roundabout.
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Question reference: S5O-02168
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 May 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what powers it has to enact a Crown Use licence to allow the production of biosimilar versions of the breast cancer treatment, Perjeta, and drugs for other conditions.
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Question reference: S5W-15754
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 April 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 26 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether the power to legislate on the matter of road traffic accidents involving (a) domestic cats and (b) other animals is devolved.
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Question reference: S5W-15753
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 April 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 26 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what action it can take to ensure that drivers who are involved in traffic accidents involving domestic cats report them.
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Question reference: S5W-15571
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 25 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-06622 by Aileen Campbell on 2 March 2017, in light of its commitment to increase "the number of community Links Workers in disadvantaged areas", whether it will provide an update on when it expects all 250 community Links Workers to be recruited to support practices in the most deprived areas.
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Question reference: S5W-15573
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 24 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on Macmillan Cancer Support’s call for banks to have a duty of care for vulnerable customers.
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Question reference: S5W-15572
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason funding for the community Links Workers programme will be distributed using the National Resource Allocation Formula, and what consideration it gave to targeting all of the country's most deprived areas on an equal basis.
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Question reference: S5W-15577
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has cost to remove the bar on remarried widows receiving support from the Scottish Infected Blood Support Scheme.
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