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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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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 18 July 2025
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Question reference: S2W-30299

  • Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 04 December 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive when it expects the development and implementation throughout the NHS of standards of care for people affected by neurological conditions, including multiple sclerosis, which were approved on 2 February 2006, to be completed.

Question reference: S2W-30249

  • Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what resources it intends to allocate to increase the amount spent on NHS patients’ food and beverages from an average of £2.34 per patient per day.

Question reference: S2W-30248

  • Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive when the catering and nutrition specifications for the NHS will be published.

Question reference: S2W-30243

  • Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the daily costs were of providing food and beverages to patients in each hospital in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-30247

  • Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 14 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what its timetable will be for implementing the recommendations in the Audit Scotland report, Catering for Patients.

Question reference: S2W-30300

  • Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 04 December 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it intends to provide additional funds to employ multiple sclerosis nurses, given that NHS Lanarkshire provides 1 nurse for 1,100 patients and the unequal access to such nurses across Scotland.

Question reference: S2W-30206

  • Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-29917 by Mr Andy Kerr on 28 November 2006, what communications it has had, or intends to have, with either United Healthcare or its president, Simon Stevens.

Question reference: S2W-30189

  • Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 27 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 12 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive when all NHS board maternity services will offer women a routine anomaly second ultrasound scan, in line with NHS Quality Improvement Scotland standards.

Question reference: S2W-30240

  • Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it envisages the future of primary medical services in Scotland as involving contracts with companies such as United Health Care.

Question reference: S2W-30239

  • Asked by: Carolyn Leckie, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Socialist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 12 December 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the Minister for Health and Community Care’s letter to me dated 28 November 2006, if NHS Lanarkshire has acted “in the normal way” since 1948, why the provisions of the Primary Medical Services (Scotland) Act 2004 were necessary.