Questions and answers
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.
- Written questions must be answered within 10 working days (20 working days during recess)
- Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber
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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Question reference: S5W-01582
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 16 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with (a) NHS Lothian and (b) the Royal College of General Practitioners following reports that GP practices in Edinburgh are unable to recruit the GPs that they require.
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Question reference: S5W-01769
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 15 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish its consultation, Mental Health in Scotland – a 10 year vision.
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Question reference: S5W-01872
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 15 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether psychiatrists are required to inform patients of the risks associated with electroconvulsive therapy.
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Question reference: S5W-01667
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 15 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many mental health organisations it has provided funding to in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S5W-01669
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 15 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many under 18s requiring mental health services have been admitted to adult wards in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S5W-01662
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 11 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to expand the ‘tell me once’ service for bereaved families in Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-01580
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reports that GP practices in Edinburgh, including Parkgrove & East Craigs Medical Practice and Southside Surgery, are unable to recruit the GPs they require.
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Question reference: S5W-01670
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on providing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) training to all public sector employees.
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Question reference: S5W-01491
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what training it provides to (a) members of and (b) advisers to its health steering groups regarding avoiding a conflict-of-interest between their roles and issues affecting NHS boards that they might be associated with.
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Question reference: S5W-01492
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the report that Information Services Division (ISD) assisted NHS Dumfries and Galloway in responding to a freedom of information (FOI) request, and what action it will take to ensure that ISD acts wholly independently of NHS boards that supply it with statistics and does not intervene when FOI requests are made to NHS boards.
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