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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government how many patients were diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) following emergency admission into hospital in (a) 2021, (b) 2022 and (c) 2023.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease (GOLD) 2025 annual report, Global Strategy for the Diagnosis, Management, and Prevention of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has considered implementing national maternity safety ambitions, in light of these being implemented in England.
To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it has had with the UK Department of Health and Social Care regarding national maternity safety ambitions.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is collaborating with (a) the UK Government and (b) international partners on the regulation of online platforms in order to reduce young people's online exposure to radical misogyny.
To ask the Scottish Government how the Scottish Biodiversity Delivery Plan 2024–2030 (a) protects Scotland's (i) rainforest and (ii) native woodlands and (b) mitigates the spread of rhododendron ponticum.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to scale up the current model of providing a specialist lawyer for domestic abuse cases in collaboration with Women’s Aid services.
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has undertaken to understand the reported increasing need for baby banks to provide emergency support for families with a baby.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken to map any instances in which unsafe contact is granted to the abusive parent in domestic abuse cases across civil and criminal processes, as part of its commitment to keeping The Promise.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it can provide details of any discussions that it has had with the UK Government regarding legislation to halt the sale of peat for horticultural use in the UK since 4 July 2024.