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: S6W-01267
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what funding it has provided for research into long COVID.
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Question reference: S6W-01262
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 28 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to establish a lived-experience panel, as recommended by the National Review of Eating Disorder Services.
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Question reference: S6W-01285
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the risk of new COVID-19 variants emerging from the reported current high number of cases.
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Question reference: S6W-01270
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to develop a network of specialist clinics for people who have long COVID.
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Question reference: S6W-01258
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 28 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether international students who are required to use hotel quarantine facilities on arrival for the 2021-22 academic year will be charged the £1,750 fee typically associated with these facilities.
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Question reference: S6W-01357
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 28 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it gave, as part of its national strategy to tackle social isolation and loneliness, to the hazard to addiction recovery of loneliness and social isolation.
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Question reference: S6W-01121
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 28 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many hours of health and wellbeing education or training are provided to student teachers during each course provided by each of the education institutions.
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Question reference: S6W-01144
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many people living in (a) Falkirk, (b) North Lanarkshire and (c) South Lanarkshire have been (i) identified and (ii) contacted through the NHS Scotland Protect Scotland app, in each month since its launch.
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Question reference: S6W-01141
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have contracted COVID-19 while attending (a) University Hospital Wishaw, (b) University Hospital Monklands, (c) University Hospital Hairmyres and (d) Forth Valley Royal Hospital.
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Question reference: S6W-01153
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 28 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many days of full-time education have been missed by pupils since school buildings reopened and what the average number of days per pupil is.
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