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.
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To ask the Scottish Government when it expects the 1,000 additional health and care support staff, announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in his statement to the Parliament on 5 October 2021, Health and Social Care (Winter Planning), to be in place.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has taken any action to alert fire safety companies to the requirements on evacuation alert systems contained in British Standard 8629:2019.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of some people aged over 60 who are not in the shielding category reportedly being invited to receive their COVID-19 booster vaccine, whether people in this group are receiving this invitation ahead of people who are in the shielding category, and who received their second dose of the COVID-19 vaccine over six months ago, and, if so, for what reason people in these groups are being invited to receive their booster in this order.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government whether experience from long COVID clinics in England is being used to inform service development in Scotland, and, if so, how this is being done.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government whether experience from England’s Long COVID clinics is being used to inform the training of NHS staff on service delivery in Scotland.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to join the National Pancreatic Cancer Audit.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to expand the Woods in and Around Towns scheme.
To ask the Scottish Government how many appointments for a second dose of an approved COVID-19 vaccine have been issued to under-16s, and how many of those appointments were subsequently cancelled.
To ask the Scottish Government whether a human rights assessment has been carried out of the COVID-19 vaccine certification scheme, and, if so, what the conclusion of the assessment was.
To ask the Scottish Government how it will improve the teaching of STEM subjects in secondary schools.