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 non-disclosure agreements have been agreed by each NHS board in each year since 1999.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that judgments of the European Court of Human Rights clarify how the European Convention on Human Rights should be interpreted.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that Four Seasons Health Care has entered administration, and what contingency planning it carried out to prepare for such an outcome.
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that the chair of the committee that will review mental health and incapacity legislation will give due consideration to the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and judgments of the European Court of Human Rights.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the short-life working group that will support the review of mental health and incapacity legislation should have at least one person with (a) lived experience who is opposed to the non-consensual treatment of adults, including mental health patients and adults with incapacity and (b) expertise in human rights.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether, in the context of mental health, the definition of "people with lived experience" should include informal carers who support relatives who receive non-consensual treatment.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position on whether the review into mental health and incapacity legislation should take account of the methodology and the findings of earlier research into the views of service users with experience of receiving non-consensual treatment.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-22530 by Jeane Freeman on 24 April 2019, by what date it will publish the findings of the research into the new clinical decision support system.
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) first, (b) second and (c) third IVF cycles have been delivered in each year since 2007.
To ask the Scottish Government what research it plans to undertake into the reasons for the rise in the number of autistic people.