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: S6W-20994
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 12 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the total (a) number and (b) value is of contracts that it has awarded to consulting companies in each of the last five fiscal years.
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Question reference: S6W-20763
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 6 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether personal emergency evacuation plans are in place for all residents of tower blocks in Scotland whose ability to self-evacuate may be compromised, such as people with reduced mobility or cognition, as recommended by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
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Question reference: S6W-20407
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 23 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the (a) average and (b) median time is between a new woodland creation application being submitted to Scottish Forestry and a decision on the application being communicated to the applicant.
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Question reference: S6W-20207
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 15 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an updated list of the research projects that it is funding into the effects of long COVID, and what the timescale is for the completion of each project.
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Question reference: S6W-20208
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 14 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what training is being provided to GPs and allied health professionals on the diagnosis and treatment of long COVID.
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Question reference: S6W-20210
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 14 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the work that it is doing with training bodies to implement the education strategy in relation to the treatment of long COVID within the medical profession.
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Question reference: S6W-20209
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 14 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what steps (a) it and (b) NHS boards are taking to ensure that people with long COVID are receiving the appropriate occupational rehabilitation services.
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Question reference: S6W-20206
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 14 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on when it expects the education strategy in relation to the treatment of long COVID within the medical profession to be fully operational.
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Question reference: S6W-19878
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Natalie Don on 8 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many appeals have been made by (a) parents, (b) reporters and (c) safeguarders, regarding the decision of a Children’s Panel, in each of the last five calendar years, and how many of those were (i) refused, (ii) sent back to the Children’s Panel to reach a new decision and (iii) cases in which the sheriff made their own determination.
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Question reference: S6W-19606
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 30 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 28 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it approved the decision to change the funding criteria so that applications for solar PV and/or energy storage systems would no longer be considered unless they were part of a package together with a heat pump or high heat retention storage heaters, through the Home Energy Scotland Grant and Loan and Private Rented Sector Landlord Loan schemes.