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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)
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Question reference: S7W-01824

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 July 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 17 August 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, since May 2024, how many clinical breast cancer patients are estimated to have undergone chemotherapy from which they derived no clinical benefit, and what steps it is taking to prevent such treatment that would be determined to be of no clinical benefit and to protect resources through the immediate expansion of genomic testing.

Question reference: S7W-01815

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 July 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 17 August 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the extent to which increased access to mechanical thrombectomy could reduce demand for inpatient stroke rehabilitation services in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.

Question reference: S7W-01814

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 July 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 17 August 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, pending the establishment of a full 24-hour, seven-day-a-week thrombectomy service, what discussions it has had with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHSGGC) about the potential implementation of a "super rota" arrangement, similar to that operated by NHS Lothian, to reduce inequity in access to mechanical thrombectomy for stroke patients.

Question reference: S7W-01816

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 July 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 17 August 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out comparing the cost of implementing a "super rota" arrangement in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde to improve patient access to mechanical thrombectomy with the cost to the NHS and social care system of providing additional rehabilitation, community support and long-term care for stroke patients who are unable to access mechanical thrombectomy when clinically referred for such a procedure.

Question reference: S7W-01823

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 20 July 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 17 August 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact on patient outcomes of the reported two-year gap in routine access to Oncotype DX testing for node-positive breast cancer patients in Scotland compared with England and Wales, where NICE guidance was implemented in May 2024.

Question reference: S7W-01553

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 06 July 2026
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 17 July 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) prosecutions and (b) convictions there there have been of jet ski owners in each year since the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park was established for infringements on the loch.

The Scottish Government’s Criminal Proceedings in Scotland database does not hold information on the specific type of watercraft involved in charges prosecuted under Loch Lomond Byelaws.

The Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service were able to manually search relevant case records and confirmed that as of 8 July 2026 the previous position (as outlined in the answer to S6W-15977 on 28 March 2023) remains. Specifically, a total of three people have been prosecuted for offences involving a jet ski under Loch Lomond Byelaws 2013 B3.5(1)&3.17 - Knowingly/recklessly/negligently navigate and behaviour of vessel (where vessel involved is a jet ski). Of these, one was convicted. All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers.

Question reference: S7W-01375

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 26 June 2026
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 17 July 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent in total to date on the Monklands Replacement Project.

The spend to date forms part of the development of the Monklands Replacement Project and includes the purchase of the Wester Moffat site. This funding has supported essential preparatory activity, including site preparation, ground investigations, surveys, planning and design work, and the approvals required to progress an infrastructure project of this scale and complexity.

Development costs are a normal part of major infrastructure planning and have brought us to an informed decision point. The spend to date, will be used to support the revised proposal on the Wester Moffat site.

In terms of spend to date, NHS Lanarkshire have published a Q&A which includes this detail available here: Reset Phase Q & A | New University Hospital Monklands.

Question reference: S7W-01372

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 26 June 2026
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 17 July 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether the (a) First Minister and (b) then Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care had seen the Full Business Case for the Monklands Replacement Project before 26 March 2026.

Question reference: S7W-01371

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 26 June 2026
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 17 July 2026

To ask the Scottish Government when it received the Full Business Case for the Monklands Replacement Project from NHS Lanarkshire.

The Scottish Government received the Full Business Case (FBC) for the Monklands Replacement Project from NHS Lanarkshire on 12 December 2025. This was then shared with NHS Scotland Assure and the West of Scotland Sub-National Assurance Board on 26 and 27 January, respectively, to consider. The Minister for Public Health was briefed by officials on their assessment of the FBC in March prior to the FBC going to the Health and Social Care Management Board on 25th March 2026.

Thereafter the Scottish Parliament was in recess and the Government entered the pre-election period. On formation of the new Government Ministers assessed the FBC and value for money case and informed Parliament ahead of summer recess of the decision to pause and redesign the FBC to ensure it brings value for money for the public purse and delivers a new Monklands Hospital for the benefit of the people of Lanarkshire.

Question reference: S7W-01374

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 26 June 2026
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 17 July 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how many meetings the then Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care and/or special advisers had with Scottish Government officials and representatives of NHS Lanarkshire relating to the Monklands Replacement Project between 1 December 2025 and 25 March 2026.