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
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Question reference: S5W-24437
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out of the impact of social prescribing that focuses on sport and physical activity and its link to technology.
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Question reference: S5W-24374
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many of the 25 drug users with HIV in Glasgow identified in 2018 have received support and treatment.
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Question reference: S5W-24370
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to tackle the reported 10-fold increase in HIV infection among drug users in Glasgow.
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Question reference: S5W-24372
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what meetings it has had with academics at Glasgow Caledonian University following its research indicating a 10-fold increase in HIV infection among drug users in Glasgow.
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Question reference: S5W-24373
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many needles were distributed to drug users in Glasgow in (a) 2015-16, (b) 2016-17, (c) 2017-18 and (d) 2018-19.
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Question reference: S5W-24200
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to promote access to medical courses to Scottish-domiciled young people.
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Question reference: S5W-24202
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 2 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication in 2018 of an equalities impact assessment of its policy to increase the number of Scotland-domiciled/EU students studying medicine at Scottish universities, whether it will provide further details on the results for the group “other sexual orientations".
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Question reference: S5W-24125
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 2 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it does not record data on ethnicity in early learning and childcare statistics, and whether it plans to start recording such data.
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Question reference: S5W-24129
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 2 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government by what date the Child Poverty Delivery Fund will be launched, and how it will tackle inequality in BAME communities.
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Question reference: S5W-24258
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 July 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 2 August 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recent publication by Barnardos, Closing the poverty related attainment gap, which states that "The attainment gap starts long before the school gates, therefore families should have access to support from birth and through the early years”, how it plans to provide further and consistent support to these families through children's early years.