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-21859
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 8 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comments by the then Cabinet Secretary for Justice, during the stage 1 debate on the Culpable Homicide (Scotland) Bill on 21 January 2021, that the Scottish Government wants to work with bereaved families to produce a bill that could help to address the issues raised, but in a way that is within the Parliament’s devolved competence, and in light of Health and Safety Executive statistics on work-related fatal injuries in Great Britain in 2023, what its position is on whether the higher fatality rate in Scotland can be attributed to a greater proportion of people working in higher risk jobs; which employment areas it considers to be higher risk, and what sector-specific action it can take to address any increased risk.
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Question reference: S6W-21861
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 7 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, as part of its regular discussions with the Scottish Law Commission on its work programme, whether it can confirm if the commission is looking specifically at work-related involuntary act culpable homicide as part of its review of homicide law.
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Question reference: S6W-21860
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 7 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when it anticipates it will receive the Scottish Law Commission’s findings and recommendations from its review of homicide law, which is due to report in 2023.
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Question reference: S6O-02708
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 November 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it supports small businesses in the Mid Scotland and Fife region.
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Question reference: S6W-21891
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 27 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to support Heart Research UK in its aim to prevent, treat and cure heart disease cases in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-21896
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 27 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to educate people about the different heart disease symptoms that are suffered by men and women.
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Question reference: S6W-21892
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 27 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of how much funding it has provided to the NHS for tackling heart disease in each of the last five financial years.
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Question reference: S6W-21893
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 27 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much the NHS has spent on tackling heart disease in each of the last five financial years, also broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S6W-21895
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 27 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to encourage more young people to receive heart screenings and to make this service more widely available.
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Question reference: S6O-02670
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to improve rail services for passengers in the Mid Scotland and Fife region.