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-12937
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 6 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recent Care Inspectorate report, which suggested that three-in-four local authorities have reported instances where the number of children requiring a foster care placement was greater than the placements available.
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Question reference: S5W-12990
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 6 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12688 by Maureen Watt on 22 November 2017, how many CAMHS patients with eating disorders have been referred to the independent sector in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S5W-12988
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 5 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12688 by Maureen Watt on 22 November 2017, what average percentage of CAMHS inpatient beds has been used for children and young people with eating disorders in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S5W-12775
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 4 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the findings in the NSPCC Scotland report, Right to Recover, which suggests that half of the local authorities in the most heavily-populated areas have no specialist service for young children who are the victims of sexual abuse, and that the support that is provided is "patchy".
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Question reference: S5W-12825
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 30 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to carry out new research on the mental health of looked after children and young adults.
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Question reference: S5W-12795
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 28 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take in light of a survey reportedly showing that 44 shops closed in Glasgow in the first six months of 2017.
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Question reference: S5W-12739
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 24 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to a recent Diabetes UK study suggesting that almost two-thirds of people with diabetes experience emotional or mental health problems as a result of their condition.
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Question reference: S5W-12688
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 22 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many specialist (a) adult and (b) child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS) eating disorder inpatient beds there are.
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Question reference: S5W-11825
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 October 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 1 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of frontline NHS staff has undertaken at least one course specifically on suicide prevention.
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