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
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Question reference: S5W-18206
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 10 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when the term of its Independent Race Equality Adviser ends, and whether it will appoint a new adviser or reappoint the current one.
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Question reference: S5W-18205
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 10 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recommendation in the report, Addressing Race Equality: The Way Forward, by its Independent Race Equality Adviser, what consideration it has given to instructing Directors of Service to review previous initiatives that are relevant to delivering race equality with a view to identifying blockages to implementation and learning lessons from them.
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Question reference: S5W-18158
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 7 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how long the waiting list is for rape survivors at each rape crisis centre.
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Question reference: S5O-02308
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 5 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on agreeing to the City of Edinburgh Council piloting a tourism tax as a means of raising revenue.
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Question reference: S5W-18246
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 3 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reported concerns that its website has limited search functionality and can be time-consuming for users seeking to access ministerial engagement data, including it requiring them to review multiple spreadsheets and it not having a search function for organisation or other fields, and whether it will consider (a) providing this information in a more user-friendly format and (b) collating the monthly spreadsheets into a regularly-updated master spreadsheet.
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Question reference: S5W-18026
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 31 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what provision there is for alcohol-related brain damage supported accommodation in each NHS board area.
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Question reference: S5W-18025
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 31 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what support is available for people with alcohol-related brain damage.
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Question reference: S5W-17884
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 29 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to update the 2008 booklet, Overdose: Bereavement. What happens now?.
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Question reference: S5W-18023
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 27 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what action it is taking to improve endometriosis services.
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Question reference: S5W-18024
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 27 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-03718 by Michael Matheson on 19 November 2014, what recommendations were made by the National Planning Forum's working group for improving services and outcomes for patients with endometriosis, and what progress has been made in implementing these.
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