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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: S6W-42207
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 12 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of any psychosocial impact of living with long-term fluctuating conditions such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis, including any impact on mental health and quality of life.
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Question reference: S6W-42213
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 12 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to any impacts of the changes to the UK Drug Tariff Part IX's medical device listing process in England and Wales on patients and NHS services across Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-42209
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 12 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what impact the collapse of NRS Healthcare Limited, which supplied mobility aids and complex assistive technologies, has had on NHS Scotland and social services across Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-42212
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 12 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what impact its publication, Equipment and Adaptations Review: Guidance on Provision 2023, has had on waiting times for the supply of mobility aids, other daily living aids and complex assistive technologies.
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Question reference: S6W-42210
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 12 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to improve the transparency and accountability of public sector health and social care procurement services.
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Question reference: S6W-42211
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 12 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve value-based standards that consider whole life costs in health and social care procurement services in integration authorities, local authorities and NHS Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-42208
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 12 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the theme of Crohn's and Colitis Awareness Week 2025, "How it feels", and how it plans to better incorporate lived experience in the formulation of government policy on invisible illnesses such as inflammatory bowel disease.
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Question reference: S6W-42080
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many biologically male prisoners are currently in female prisons, and what assessment it has made of any impact on female prisoners of this.
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Question reference: S6W-42081
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it has not yet settled the costs in the Supreme Court case, For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers.
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Question reference: S6W-42077
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has initiated a review of all policy and guidance following the Supreme Court judgment that sex, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, is biological.
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