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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: S4O-00802

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S4W-05909

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 24 February 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what (a) central and (b) accessible resource the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy will establish to allow people and organisations representing the protected characteristics to compare performance across all NHS boards in setting and delivering equality outcomes.

Question reference: S4W-05905

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 24 February 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what checks the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy will put in place to ensure that the equality outcomes to be published by each NHS board by 31 December 2012 (a) are fit for purpose, (b) comply with the guidance to be published by the Equality and Human Rights Commission and (c) are fully accessible in one NHS web-based resource.

Question reference: S4W-05908

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 24 February 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what guidance the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy will issue to members of NHS boards to ensure that (a) governance arrangements, (b) accountability and (c) transparency in the setting and delivery of equality outcomes is (i) regularly considered at board level and (ii) placed in the public domain as well as in one central NHS web-based resource.

Question reference: S4W-05906

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 24 February 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what baseline data relating to levels of discrimination in the NHS the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy will use to monitor the effectiveness of NHS boards in setting equality outcomes.

Question reference: S4W-05907

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 24 February 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what plans the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy has to monitor, in partnership with people and organisations representing the protected characteristics, the performance of NHS boards in evidencing the delivery of the equality outcomes to published by each board by 31 December 2012.

Question reference: S4W-05904

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 24 February 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 6 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive how the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Wellbeing and Cities Strategy will ensure that all NHS boards engage with people and organisations representing the protected characteristics and that their daily experiences of discrimination in the NHS are built into the equality outcomes to be published by each board by 31 December 2012.

The regulations which cover the specific requirements that will be placed on listed public authorities have not yet been made. When they do come into force we expect that they will be accompanied by guidance from the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Once this guidance has been developed the Scottish Government will work with the Equality Team at NHS Health Scotland to consider what further support or guidance may be required.

Question reference: S4O-00759

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 February 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 March 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to review the membership and functions of Partnership Action for Continuing Employment.

Question reference: S4W-05093

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 19 January 2012
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 30 January 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive for what reason no NHS board has published an equal pay review similar to NHS24's previous analysis of the pay differentials between (a) disabled and non-disabled staff, (b) staff in different age bands and (c) black and minority ethnic (BME) and other staff.

Question reference: S4F-00421

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 23 January 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 January 2012

To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government considers any local authority to be not fit for purpose.