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-19254
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2018
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 October 2018
To ask Scottish Government how it will ensure that proposed domiciliary dental care, which is set out in the Oral Health Improvement Plan, will be compatible with the General Dental Council’s standards document.
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Question reference: S5W-19255
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 05 October 2018
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 October 2018
To ask Scottish Government how it will ensure that the proposed payment change to encourage dentists to give more advice to patients, which is set out in the Oral Health Improvement Plan, will not result in dentists being penalised if patients do not follow that advice.
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Question reference: S5W-19088
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 September 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 17 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the potential for self-sampling to increase coverage of cervical screening.
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Question reference: S5W-18315
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 27 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many Scotland-domiciled (a) undergraduate and (b) postgraduate students have enrolled at medical schools in Scotland in each of the last 10 years, also broken down by the percentage of medical students that this represented.
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Question reference: S5W-18316
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 27 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how many and (b) what proportion of Scotland-domiciled students at medical schools in Scotland in each of the last 10 years found subsequent employment in NHS Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-18441
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 25 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the UK Department for Education's recent announcement regarding mandatory CPR training in schools in England and the British Heart Foundation's campaign on the issue, what its position is on introducing such training in Scotland's schools, and what its response is to reported international evidence suggesting that such an approach can increase survival rates.
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Question reference: S5W-18770
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 25 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when the Scottish National Blood Transfusion Service last met Blood Bikes Scotland.
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Question reference: S5T-01233
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 September 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what arrangements it is making for ordering the enhanced flu vaccination for the forthcoming immunisation programme.
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Question reference: S5W-18445
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 20 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with experts who have developed strategies in other countries that have improved survival rates from out-of-hospital cardiac arrest.
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