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.
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To ask the Scottish Government how many hospital beds have been available in each year since 2007, broken down by NHS board.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the comment in the paper, Open Government in Scotland Action Plan 2018-2020, that "our involvement in Open Government [is] one way of achieving transformative change in how we govern. We joined the Open Government Partnership (OGP) in 2016 because we share the values of openness, transparency and accountability with the 90+ governments and their civil society partners around the world who are members of OGP", for what reason its National Advisory Committee for Chronic Pain meets in private without media and public access, and which of its other similar advisory groups, forums, partnerships, boards and task forces follow a similar practice.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comments by the Minister for Public Health, Sport and Wellbeing on 3 March 2020 (Official Report, c. 78), which members of the Expert Women’s Health Group have specific experience and expertise in dealing with the issues regarding pregnancy and pre-eclampsia, and whether it will publish the agenda and minutes of the meeting that took place on 5 February 2020 and routinely make public future agendas and minutes.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to help encourage an increase in the recycling of medical plastic, including anaesthetic plastic, and what support it provides to NHS boards, anaesthetists and other staff to assist with this.
To ask the Scottish Government how many appeals have been made under the PACS Tier 2 system, broken down by NHS board.
To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have been able to access drugs via the PACS Tier 2 system in each year.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many ambulances have been out of use, for example because of requiring repair, since 2007, also broken down by (a) quarter and (b) percentage of the total number of ambulances.
To ask the Scottish Government how many places have been available for people to study (a) childcare and (b) adult social care in each year since 1999.
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have graduated in (a) childcare and (b) adult social care in each year since 1999.
To ask the Scottish Government what progress the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service is making with efforts to reduce waiting times for toxicology results.