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-06156
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what the longest recorded time was to discharge a patient from an ambulance on arrival at A&E in each month since May 2011, broken down by Scottish Ambulance Service regional operational division.
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Question reference: S5W-06157
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that the Scottish Ambulance Service maintains and checks its fleet every six weeks.
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Question reference: S5W-06152
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to publish weekly (a) waiting time and (b) attendance levels for hospital acute assessment units.
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Question reference: S5W-06154
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what action it took during the centralisation of A&E services in Glasgow to ensure that patients brought to hospital in an ambulance would be discharged to A&E in a timely manner.
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Question reference: S5W-06162
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many paramedics have been employed by each Scottish Ambulance Service regional operational division in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S5W-06160
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of ambulances attending emergencies in each Scottish Ambulance Service regional operational division in each year since 2011 were not fully equipped to support paramedics in their work.
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Question reference: S5W-06153
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding has been provided to each Scottish Ambulance Service regional operational division in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S5W-06159
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that ambulances attending emergencies are (a) mechanically safe and (b) stocked with the full supply of paramedic drugs, material or equipment.
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Question reference: S5W-06158
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on ambulances attending emergencies without shift paramedics having carried out stock checks on the vehicles’ supplies.
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Question reference: S5W-06155
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what the average time to discharge a patient from an ambulance on arrival at A&E in each Scottish Ambulance Service regional operational division has been in each year since 2011.
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