Chamber and committees

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.

Find out more about parliamentary questions

Filter your results Hide all filters

Displaying 919 questions Show Answers

Order by |

Question reference: S4W-17147

Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 26 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that NHS boards deliver anthroplasty services locally and what its position is on the national contract for such services.

Question reference: S4W-17148

Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 26 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recent announcement that it will provide additional support for the Golden Jubilee National Hospital, whether it plans to centralise routine orthopaedic procedures.

Question reference: S4W-17149

Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 September 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 26 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports of significant reductions in waiting times for orthopaedic services, whether it will write to the staff who provide these services to thank them for their work.

Question reference: S4O-02447

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S4O-02378

Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 September 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the number of local jobs that have been created as a result of the construction works for the Forth replacement crossing.

Question reference: S4O-02317

Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 June 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 June 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how much it will cost to repair the defects in roads in Fife.

Question reference: S4W-14706

Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 17 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-14370 by Alex Neil on 29 April 2013, how it made an assessment of patients' views when developing the tender documents for the supply of hairpieces.

Question reference: S4W-14708

Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 17 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what guidance it has given to NHS boards on the provision of hairpieces and related services.

The most recent Scottish Government guidance relating to the provision of wigs, which is still extant, is contained at Annex A of NHS Circular PCA (P)7 M3 (2008). This was published in March 2008 and is available online at:

http://www.sehd.scot.nhs.uk/pca/PCA2008(P)07(M)03.pdf.

In addition to this, wig prescribing guidance was issued to NHS board chief executives in November 2011, which was produced as a result of the work of the Supply of Wigs Investigation Group Scotland:

http://www.show.scot.nhs.uk/sehd/publications/DC20111102wigs.pdf

Question reference: S4W-14703

Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 17 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-14374 by Alex Neil on 1 May 2013, what consideration it has given to stipulating in the contract that all chemotherapy patients and people with alopecia must have services related to hairpieces provided within a reasonable travelling distance and what it defines as a reasonable travelling distance.

This is a matter for National Procurement, a division of NHS National Services Scotland, who advise that the new Wigs and associated services contract was awarded to an increased number of suppliers, with a view to improving the coverage of NHS Health boards through local premises of either contract suppliers, or their agents. As the contract suppliers are Small Medium Enterprises, there is no guarantee that premises will be available within a specified distance, hence the use of agents for this contract.

Question reference: S4W-14230

Asked by: Helen Eadie, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 May 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 17 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-14201 by Alex Neil on 1 May 2013, whether it is aware of concerns expressed by parents of children who have experienced hair loss as a result of cancer treatment whose children have been denied wigs that match their ethnicity requirements and, if so, what discussion it had with each supplier regarding this.