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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-00620

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 January 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive when it last met representatives of NUS Scotland.

Question reference: S4O-00596

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2012
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 January 2012

To ask the Scottish Executive what recent discussions the Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure and Capital Investment has had with construction sector representatives in Lanarkshire and what issues were discussed.

Question reference: S4O-00415

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 24 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when it last met NHS Lanarkshire to discuss cancer services.

Question reference: S4O-00355

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 10 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth last met COSLA.

Question reference: S4W-03777

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 November 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 10 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has estimated the extra cost to local authorities of administering and collecting the proposed public health levy.

Question reference: S4W-03425

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-02826 by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 September 2011, (a) when and (b) how women in the NHS will benefit from their employers being required to “go beyond the letter of the law to ensure that they are exemplary employers” on equal pay.

The Equality and Human Rights Commission have published a Code of Practice on Equal Pay. The code recognises that regular review and monitoring of pay practices is not a formal legal requirement. However, it suggests that equal pay reviews may be the most effective means of ensuring that a pay system delivers equal pay. NHS employers will, therefore, wish to maintain an awareness of the code in taking forward equal pay reviews as soon as this is deemed feasible.

Question reference: S4W-03421

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-02826 by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 September 2011, whether a deadline will now be set by which detailed equal pay reviews will be carried out by each NHS board.

Question reference: S4W-03422

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 17 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 9 November 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S4W-02826 by Nicola Sturgeon on 29 September 2011, for what reason this was not an issue in NHS 24, in which details of any gender, age and disability pay gap have been available via equal pay reviews in each of the last three years.

Question reference: S4W-03471

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 27 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what the (a) cost and (b) benefits to local authorities will be of administering and collecting its proposed public health levy.

The Scottish Government already takes account of the administration and collection cost associated with local taxation within the local government finance settlement.

We cannot afford to ignore the scale of social problems that put pressure on the public purse. Given the significant cuts from the UK Government the additional income raised will be used to contribute towards the preventative spend measures that will be taken forward jointly with the Scottish Government, local authorities, the NHS and the third sector.

Question reference: S4W-03472

Asked by: Michael McMahon, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 October 2011
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 27 October 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will ask local authorities to ring fence for health purposes the money collected from its proposed public health levy.