Skip to main content

Language: English / Gàidhlig

Loading…

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

Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 11 February 2025
Answer status
Question type

Displaying 8974 questions Show Answers

|

Question reference: S6W-33329

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 17 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 30 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it anticipates that any of the £4.5 million budget for the actions in the Neurological Care and Support in Scotland: A Framework for Action 2020 – 2025 will not have been spent by March 2025; if so, how much of the budget it anticipates will have been spent by this date, and for what reason the full £4.5 million will not have been distributed within this timescale, in light of its commitment to do so.

Question reference: S6W-33326

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 16 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 29 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the £16 million allocated to stroke thrombectomy services in the draft Budget 2025-26. 

Question reference: S6W-33324

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 29 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what consultation it has had with stroke clinicians and third sector organisations in relation to thrombectomy funding in its draft Budget 2025-26.

Question reference: S6W-33337

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 29 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) neuropsychologists and (b) trainee neuropsychologists there are, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S6W-33338

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 29 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to advance professional expertise in the training of neurologists in (a) immunology and (b) virology, and what action it is taking to improve the integration of neurological practice with these specialities.

Question reference: S6W-33243

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 28 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government when the Scottish Screening Committee will next meet, and whether lung cancer screening will be an item on the agenda.

Question reference: S6W-33241

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 24 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to a recent article published on Healthandcare.scot, which claimed that “Ministers say they will introduce a lung cancer screening programme in adults aged 55-74 with a history of smoking, in line with a recent recommendation from the UK National Screening Committee”, by what date the programme will commence, and whether it will include an incidental findings pathway for people diagnosed as having chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) during their CT scan.

Question reference: S6W-33328

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 17 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 24 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Stroke Improvement Plan 2023 to deliver a detailed plan for further development of the national thrombectomy service before the end of 2023, whether it remains committed to publishing such a plan, and, if so, when it plans to do so, and whether it will commit to publishing this in 2025.

Question reference: S6W-33340

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 16 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 24 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it has proposed reducing the Young Patients Family Fund by £700,000 in its draft Budget 2025-26, and what its response is to reported concerns that this sets a precedent for further reductions to the support that children and young people with cancer, and their families, may need.

Question reference: S6W-33327

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 16 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 24 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to have a national AI system in place to support delivery of mechanical thrombectomy, and, if so, when.