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-30907
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 18 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what additional resources it will make available to the NHS to ensure the safe distribution of the flu vaccine in 2020.
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Question reference: S5F-04278
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 August 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 August 2020
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5W-30913
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 14 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has done of the (a) short-, (b) medium- and (c) long-term implications to dentistry service as a result of COVID-19.
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Question reference: S5W-30906
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 14 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what protections, instructions or guidance it will issue to ensure that people who require the flu vaccine in 2020 will receive the vaccination safely if there is a second wave of COVID-19.
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Question reference: S5W-30905
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 14 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration is has given to widening the field of people who are eligible for the flu vaccination in 2020, and, if it proposes to do so, what the criteria will be.
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Question reference: S5W-30914
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 12 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to the the Scottish Human Rights Commission briefing on care homes and human rights during COVID-19, which was published on 14 July 2020.
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Question reference: S5W-30917
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 12 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government if a successful vaccination is found against COVID-19, what plans it has in place for its distribution.
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Question reference: S5W-30904
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 12 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what plans are in place to recruit additional NHS staff to ensure that staffing complements are adequate to meet any increase in absence rates due to continued shielding requirements for staff.
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Question reference: S5W-30912
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 12 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many retired NHS staff, and people who previously worked in the NHS, volunteered to come back to the health service during the COVID-19 pandemic; how many of those were used, and how many are still undertaking work there.
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Question reference: S5W-30916
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 11 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many death in service payments have been made to the families of frontline (a) NHS and (b) social care workers who died as a result of COVID-19.
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