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-05315
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 14 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on adults who have the capacity to make a treatment decision having an absolute right to refuse any treatment.
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Question reference: S5W-05320
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 14 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason prisons are not included in the national HEAT standard that NHS boards are required to meet regarding waiting times for psychological therapies.
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Question reference: S5W-05317
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 14 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether a failure by a mental health tribunal to test the evidence that a patient lacked the ability to make a decision about their treatment could provide grounds for appeal to the sheriff principal.
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Question reference: S5W-05314
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 14 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many psychiatric patients have been registered in each year since 2004, also broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S5T-00254
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 December 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the latest BMA GP survey.
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Question reference: S5W-04814
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 5 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many whole-time equivalent human resources staff have been employed by each NHS board in each year since 2010-11, and how many there currently are.
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Question reference: S5W-04777
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 5 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many patients are classified as delayed discharge, code 9 (awaiting completion of complex care arrangements in order to live in their own home), and how many there have been in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S5W-04933
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 5 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it will publish the findings of Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland's review of how homicides involving persons with a mental illness are dealt with.
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Question reference: S5W-04932
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 30 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-02025 by Shona Robison on 15 September 2016, what steps it has introduced to reduce the risk of future similar litigation regarding informed consent procedures.
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Question reference: S5F-00580
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 28 November 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 December 2016
To ask the First Minister what steps the Scottish Government is taking to address workforce issues in the NHS.
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