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-24952
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that a death in the United States has been caused by a severe respiratory disease linked to the use of e-cigarettes.
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Question reference: S5W-24709
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it (a) has commissioned and (b) plans to commission a feasibility study on bringing NHS catering services in-house.
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Question reference: S5W-24708
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how much each NHS board pays to private contractors for hospital catering services.
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Question reference: S5W-24934
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-24077 by Jeane Freeman on 18 July 2019, how the funding allocated to improve chronic pain services will be used to improve waiting times and patient access to specialist chronic pain clinics.
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Question reference: S5W-24764
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 29 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what advice it issues to GPs and pharmacies regarding the supply of hormone replacement therapy and, if it does not currently issue such advice, whether it plans to do so.
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Question reference: S5W-24539
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has provided funding for the Pause Programme in Dundee and, if so, whether it plans to continue to do so in future years.
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Question reference: S5W-24673
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recent announcement by ScotRail that Glasgow Queen Street, Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort William train stations will not remove charges for access to toilets and plan to increase charges from 30p to 50p.
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Question reference: S5W-24595
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 28 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of the due diligence that it carried out prior to appointing Tradebe to dispose of clinical waste, and what consideration it made of the reported penalties that the company had been subject to because of environmental and workplace health and safety violations.
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Question reference: S5W-24592
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 28 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what action it has taken in response to the report in the Herald on Sunday on 17 February 2019 that that nearly 30 tonnes of high-risk clinical waste appears to have gone missing.
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Question reference: S5W-24593
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 28 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the report in The Guardian on 25 July 2019 regarding hazardous clinical waste originating from the UK that has recently been discovered in Sri Lanka, what information it has regarding whether this includes clinical waste originating from Scotland.
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