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-23500
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 6 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reports that Scotland is the only part of the UK where NHS boards directly employ stoma support nurses, instead of device manufacturers providing this support.
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Question reference: S5W-23498
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 6 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on increasing the availability of adult changing facilities and facilities to empty or change medical appliances, such as stomas, across Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-23499
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 6 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on allowing more stoma support nurses to be employed by going back to the system where they were paid by product manufacturers, instead of being employed by the NHS.
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Question reference: S5W-23327
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the most recent figures are for the number of people being treated for continence issues who use (a) indwelling catheters and (b) intermittent self-catheterisation (ISC).
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Question reference: S5W-23557
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 5 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Poverty and Inequality Commission's response to its Budget 2019-20, whether it will detail how its Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan will directly benefit families.
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Question reference: S5W-23555
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 5 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the proposal in its Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan, what the value of the new income supplement will be.
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Question reference: S5W-23552
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 5 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-23107 by Kevin Stewart on 21 May 2019, whether it will provide a breakdown of the work that it (a) has started on each pathway and (b) is set to start later in 2019 on a care leavers pathway.
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Question reference: S5W-23470
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its implementation of the recommendations of the Montgomery Review of Access to New Medicines.
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Question reference: S5W-23329
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 4 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many continence (a) specialist nurses and (b) advisers there have been working in the NHS in each year since 2014.
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Question reference: S5W-23330
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 4 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what action NHS boards have taken in relation to point 6 of the joint letter of 17 August 2018 to boards from the Chief Medical Officer and Chief Nursing Officer to ensure that patients are "reassessed regularly to ensure that the care they are receiving remains the most appropriate for their needs".
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