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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it plans to allocate to projects in Lothian that will help support people and jobs.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of data from Japan and Sweden that reportedly suggests there is a link between vitamin D deficiency and higher mortality and respiratory infection rates in care homes.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the recent study in France that states that vitamin D supplementation can reduce mortality by 89% for care home residents with COVID-19.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the policy in New Zealand to provide vitamin D supplements for all care home residents, what assessment it has made of the impact of this practice on that country's rate of deaths in care homes due to COVID-19, and whether it plans to introduce the same policy in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason (a) people shielding are and (b) care home residents are not being provided with free vitamin D supplements.
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with NHS boards regarding providing vitamin D supplements for all care home residents.
To ask the Scottish Government whether fitness classes can be permitted under the COVID-19 restrictions, and what scientific evidence it has used to determine this.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how much rates relief support has been provided to Edinburgh Airport Ltd during the COVID-19 pandemic, and whether this support has covered its short- and long-term car parking operations.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason long-stay car parking businesses servicing airports are excluded from receiving 100% rates relief for retail, hospitality and leisure businesses under the Non-Domestic Rates (Coronavirus Reliefs) (Scotland) Regulations 2020.
To ask the Scottish Government what support it is making available to long-stay airport car parking businesses that have been affected by the reported drop in airport passenger numbers during the COVID-19 pandemic.