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-26293
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 November 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the NHS currently spends per annum on reflux medications for babies under six months old.
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Question reference: S5W-26292
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 November 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 22 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the NHS currently spends per annum on prescription formulas for babies under six months old.
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Question reference: S5W-26209
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 November 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 21 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) hen harrier nests, (b) hen harrier nests that failed to have any chicks fledge and (c) stoats there have been in Orkney in each of the last seven years, and what it estimates the figure will be for 2019.
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Question reference: S5W-26290
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 November 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 20 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made to improve breastfeeding rates.
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Question reference: S5W-26255
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 November 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 12 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what action it can take to ban the use of sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) gas, and whether it plans to take any action on this issue.
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Question reference: S5W-25880
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 11 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how its framework for older people (a) identifies and (b) works to alleviate levels of malnutrition.
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Question reference: S5W-26117
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 31 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 11 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what action it takes to ensure that GPs use the most up-to-date guidance to help spot blood cancer symptoms.
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Question reference: S5W-26091
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-25762 by Roseanna Cunningham on 29 October 2019, what its response is to evidence from Oakdene Hollins, A review of the proposed recycling DRS in Scotland, which suggests that the UK beer market is "‘highly vulnerable" to upsizing with "90% of the market being 33cl or below"’ and "the larger 50cl having sufficient market presence to prompt the switch", and whether it considers that it contradicts the answer that it provided.
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Question reference: S5W-26068
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it is taking to improve recycling infrastructure such as closed loop glass reprocessing capabilities.
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Question reference: S5W-26069
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it will take to increase the percentage of clear glass being recycled.