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-24594
- 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 clinical waste will be exported to other countries under its contract with Tradebe.
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Question reference: S5W-24765
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 27 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many times in the last 12 months it has met the UK Government to discuss the supply of hormone replacement therapy.
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Question reference: S5W-24674
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 27 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the announcement by ScotRail that toilet charges will continue in four stations in Scotland, what its response is to research by Age Scotland that states that older people may not make journeys that do not have a convenient toilet stop.
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Question reference: S5W-24572
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 21 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish a detailed report on graduate apprenticeships.
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Question reference: S5W-24541
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 21 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, what its response is to reports of high influenza activity early in the season in Australia and across the Southern Hemisphere; what impact this could have on influenza activity in Scotland, and what action it will take in response to this.
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Question reference: S5W-24573
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 21 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the gender breakdown is for the 921 graduate apprenticeships starts in the recently published 2018-19 Skills Development Scotland figures.
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Question reference: S5W-24540
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 21 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the uptake for the influenza vaccine reportedly decreasing since 2013-14, how it plans to increase the uptake for (a) people aged 65 and over and (b) other at-risk groups during the 2018-19 vaccination programme.
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Question reference: S5W-24616
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 21 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken to ensure that the general standards in neurological health services are implemented universally across NHS.
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Question reference: S5W-24617
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 21 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what action it takes to monitor the implementation of the general standards in neurological health services across NHS boards.
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Question reference: S5W-24615
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 20 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many peripheral nerve experts there have been in each of the last 10 years, broken down by NHS board.
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