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 what plans it has to introduce speed awareness courses as an alternative to points being put on driving licenses.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact of the number of staff retirements in the (a) short-, (b) medium- and (c) long-term on the size of the mental health nurse workforce.
To ask the Scottish Government when it anticipates new guidance on restraint and seclusion in schools will be published; which organisations it will consult on this, and whether it will provide more detail of what the guidance will cover.
To ask the Scottish Government how many agency midwives have been employed by each NHS board in each year since 2007.
To ask the Scottish Government how it raised awareness among the public, NHS organisations and the voluntary sector regarding the extension of free personal care to people under 65 ahead of its implementation, and whether it has further plans to increase awareness of its availability to that age group.
To ask the Scottish Government how much each local authority received in the current financial year for the extension of free personal care to people under 65, and what information it has on how much of this has been used by each council so far.
To ask the Scottish Government how much it made available to the Digital Health Institute/Glasgow School of Art for organising workshops and reports on 12 NHS disciplines to aid the Scottish Access Collaborative’s plans in (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19 and (c) to date in 2019-20.
To ask the Scottish Government how much it paid to the Digital Health Institute/Glasgow School of Art for organising workshops and a report on chronic pain in (a) 2017-18, (b) 2018-19 and (c) to date in 2019-20.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many people have applied for support under the extension of free personal care to people under 65 since it came into force, and how many have had applications rejected, broken down by local authority.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how much training health and social care staff in each local authority area have had in relation to the extension of free personal care to people under 65.