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-30163
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 7 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers root canal procedures to be classed as urgent dental care.
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Question reference: S5F-04243
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 June 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 June 2020
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5O-04442
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 June 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of BAME health and social care workers have been risk-assessed for COVID-19.
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Question reference: S5W-29308
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 11 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what research it is (a) carrying out and (b) supporting on vitamin D deficiency and its impact on COVID-19 severity and mortality.
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Question reference: S5W-29310
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 11 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of recent international research on the links between low vitamin D levels and COVID-19 severity, what consideration it has given to testing vitamin D levels in (a) hospital patients and (b) care home residents.
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Question reference: S5W-29309
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 11 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what research it is (a) carrying out and (b) supporting on the impact of low levels of vitamin D on high-risk COVID-19 groups, including (i) black and minority ethnic people, (ii) obese people and (iii) older people (A) in and (B) outwith care homes.
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Question reference: S5W-29311
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 9 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to increase the provision of free vitamin D supplementation to include all high-risk groups for COVID-19.
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Question reference: S5W-29312
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 9 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of recent research, including in connection with the COVID-19 outbreak, what action it is taking to update public health guidance on vitamin D supplementation, and how it will promote this as widely as possible.
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Question reference: S5F-04193
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 June 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 June 2020
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5W-29413
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when urgent cancer operations and treatment that were cancelled or postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic will resume, and when cancer screening programmes will recommence in (a) Lothian and (b) across Scotland.
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