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-21217
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 6 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Fife Council regarding the need to ensure that land is available to create an effective transport hub with bus/train interchange and active travel provision in respect of the Levenmouth Rail Link.
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Question reference: S5O-02868
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 6 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what action is being taken to help pupils affected by the closure of the New School in Butterstone.
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Question reference: S5O-02828
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 30 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a summary of information that was received by the Cabinet Secretary for Government Business and Constitutional Relations during his recent ministerial visit to Belgium.
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Question reference: S5W-21056
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 29 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its reaction is to reports that NHS Forth Valley is planning to remove the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Unit at the Royal Hospital in Larbert and that this could subsequently lead to the closure of the tele-health rehabilitation service offered at Clackmannanshire Community Health Centre and in Callander.
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Question reference: S5O-02782
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 January 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to NHS Forth Valley being escalated to Stage 3 on the NHS Board Performance Escalation Framework.
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Question reference: S5W-20485
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 7 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the call by Pancreatic Cancer UK for people with the condition to begin treatment within 20 days of diagnosis.
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Question reference: S5W-20491
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 7 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting has been for people with pancreatic cancer to begin treatment in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S5W-20582
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 20 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that some adults in Fife are waiting up to 11 months to be seen by a mental health specialist, and what plan it has to conduct a review of NHS Fife’s adult mental health support.
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Question reference: S5O-02729
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 December 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to review the single-person discount for Council Tax.
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Question reference: S5W-20419
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 06 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 18 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S5O-02462 by Jeanne Freeman on 24 October 2018 (Official Report, c. 5) and S5W-20199 by Joe FitzPatrick on 5 December 2018, whether it will confirm what progress has been made in its discussions with Chest Heart & Stroke Scotland, and by what date it will announce its decision regarding whether it will invest in a universal and equal right to pulmonary rehabilitation for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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