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 action it has taken to encourage a reduction in the purchase of (a) bottled water and (b) single-use plastic cups across its directorates in each of the last three years, and what analysis it has carried out of the effectiveness of this approach.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Parkinson’s UK Scotland report, Get It On Time, which suggests that the country’s hospitals fail to give people with Parkinson’s their medication on time more than 100,000 times every year.
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to implement each of the recommendations in the Parkinson’s UK Scotland report, Get It On Time.
To ask the Scottish Government how many contracts on the (a) Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and (b) Royal Hospital for Children and Young People construction project were sub-contracted.
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out of progress with the development of stem cell therapy for people with multiple sclerosis (MS).
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of NHS England's commitment to rolling out a new national programme of eye care in all special schools from 2020, whether NHS Scotland will make the same commitment.
To ask the Scottish Government how much the NHS has spent on staff (a) training and (b) career development in each year since 2007, also broken down by the number of hours taken up.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of how the £139.4 million allocated to it by the UK Government as a consequential of EU exit preparation funding has been spent in (a) 2018-19 and (b) 2019-20.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on accessible rest facilities for staff being available in hospitals.
To ask the Scottish Government what guidance it gives to NHS boards on the inclusion of rest facilities for NHS staff in the building of new hospitals.