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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

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Question reference: S7W-02971

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason thrombolysis door-to-needle times are significantly longer out-of-hours, and, further to the First Minister’s commitment to deliver 24/7 thrombectomy cover across Scotland, whether it will provide information on when the delivery plan for this commitment will be published, when the service will be fully operational and what resources will be required to deliver it.

Question reference: S7W-02974

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comments by the First Minister during First Minister's Questions on 3 September 2026 regarding "a planning appeal relating to a proposed green data centre in Edinburgh", what specific characteristics of the proposed development led the First Minister to describe it as a "green data centre".

Question reference: S7W-02899

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its commitment in the 2026-2031 Programme for Government that no patient will wait more than 26 weeks for the treatment they need by the end of 2031, (a) what modelling has been undertaken to assess whether this target is achievable, (b) what its position is on why previous waiting-time targets have not been met, and (c) when waits of more than 52 weeks will be eradicated.

Question reference: S7W-02980

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its commitment in the 2026-2031 Programme for Government to provide every person with a new Digital Health and Care Record, when the record will be launched, and what the estimated cost of its design and delivery is.

Question reference: S7W-02962

Asked by: Paul McLennan, MSP for East Lothian Coast and Lammermuirs, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish any cost estimates, financial modelling or resource assessments relating to the implementation of the commitments contained in Palliative Care Matters for All: palliative care strategy 2025 to 2030.

Question reference: S7W-02970

Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what specific support and interventions it is providing to NHS boards that continue to perform poorly against the objectives of the Scottish Stroke Improvement Plan, including NHS Forth Valley, NHS Borders and NHS Lanarkshire, and what action it is taking to address the significant regional variation in delivery of the inpatient stroke care bundle across Scotland.

Question reference: S7W-02985

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the August 2026 publication of the Fifth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction by the European Society of Cardiology, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association and World Heart Federation, what assessment it has made of the implications for NHS Scotland.

Question reference: S7W-02968

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Fife North East, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the claim in the Serious Organised Crime & Anti-Corruption Evidence Research Programme research paper, Russian War-Related Illicit Trade in the Black Sea: International Networks and Policy Options, that central Glasgow property is owned by a company linked to the owner of a Russian port, and that this may raise questions about the screening of inbound investment.

Question reference: S7W-02963

Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026

To ask the Scottish Government which companies have been considered ineligible for grant funding since the First Minister's statement to Parliament on 3 September 2025, in which he stated that the Scottish Government would “pause new awards of public money to arms companies whose products or services are provided to countries where there is plausible evidence of genocide being committed by that country”.

Question reference: S7W-02988

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider introducing arrangements, similar to the pilot programme in France, that would allow women who suspect that they have been the victim of drink or drug spiking to submit blood, urine or hair samples for laboratory testing without first having to make a formal complaint to Police Scotland.