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-10451
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what the longest wait was for a brain scan in 2016-17 for a patient diagnosed with a stroke, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S5W-10452
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on conducting an audit of the care received by stroke patients beyond the first 72 hours to assess the longer-term outcomes for them and the requirements for their care.
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Question reference: S5W-10453
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of it being included in previous years, for what reason the most recent Scottish Stroke Care Improvement Report did not contain a section in which the CEO of each NHS board commented on their local stroke provision.
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Question reference: S5W-10445
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to encourage black and minority ethnic (BME) people to work in the health and social care sector.
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Question reference: S5W-10444
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the NHS workforce identifies as black and minority ethnic (BME), and how this compares to the proportion of BME people in the wider population.
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Question reference: S5W-10446
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what action each NHS board is taking to increase the (a) recruitment, (b) retention and (c) development of black and minority ethnic (BME) people in its workforce.
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Question reference: S5W-10454
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the NHS workforce identifies as being disabled, and how this compares to the proportion of disabled people in the wider population.
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Question reference: S5W-10455
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to encourage disabled people to work in the health and social care sector.
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Question reference: S5W-10456
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what action each NHS board is taking to increase the (a) recruitment, (b) retention and (c) development of disabled people in its workforce.
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Question reference: S5W-10316
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 July 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many consultant (a) radiologist and (b) interventional neuroradiologist vacancies there have been in each of the last six months.