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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: S7W-01925

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 July 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 19 August 2026

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the first meeting of the group established to consider the Scottish Health Technologies Group's recommendation that lidocaine infusions, lidocaine injections and radiofrequency treatment should continue for suitable chronic pain patients, scheduled for 29 April 2026, was cancelled, and whether it will publish details of the group's leadership, membership and remit.

Question reference: S7W-01922

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 July 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 19 August 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether any review of the NHS estate has assessed NHS buildings as containing asbestos and, if so, how many buildings have been so identified.

Question reference: S7W-01917

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 July 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 19 August 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have received cataract surgery in each NHS board, in each year since 2021.

Question reference: S7W-01926

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 July 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 19 August 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what safeguards are in place to monitor and prevent any undue influence by the alcohol industry on public health policy relating to alcohol harm.

Question reference: S7W-01923

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 July 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 19 August 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how many individuals have been prescribed methadone in each year since 2021.

Question reference: S7W-01918

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 July 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 19 August 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what the longest waiting time for cataract surgery has been in each NHS board, in each year since 2021.

Question reference: S7W-01697

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 July 2026
Current Status: Answered by Alison Thewliss on 21 July 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how many adult day care facilities and services have operated in each local authority area in each year since 2021.

The Scottish Government does not routinely collect comprehensive information on the number of adult day care facilities and services operating in each local authority area.

However, between 2022 and 2024, the Scottish Government carried out four surveys of adult day care services at a national level. The surveys were initially undertaken to establish the extent to which services had returned to pre-pandemic operating levels.

Two collections were undertaken in 2022 to capture service provision before and after the removal of social distancing measures. The figures provided for 2022 reflect the later of these two collections. Further surveys undertaken in 2023 and 2024 continued to monitor the extent to which services had returned to pre-pandemic levels.

Adult day care services are typically commissioned through Health and Social Care Partnerships, and the information is reported on that basis.

The figures presented include only those services identified through survey returns as being open or open with reduced capacity. A figure of zero should not be interpreted as indicating that no adult day care facilities or services were operating in that area. In some cases, a zero may reflect a nil return, an incomplete return, or differences in local reporting rather than an absence of services.

HSCP	2022	2023	2024
Aberdeen City	0	2	2
Aberdeenshire	7	7	9
Angus	9	11	10
Argyll and Bute	13	13	10
Clacks and Stirling	2	2	13
Dumfries and Galloway	10	10	9
Dundee	6	0	7
East Ayrshire	2	5	3
East Dunbartonshire	7	7	7
East Lothian	0	0	20
East Renfrewshire	2	2	0
Edinburgh	34	38	33
Falkirk	1	1	8
Fife	19	20	18
Glasgow	27	28	31
Highland	0	13	0
Inverclyde	0	5	6
Midlothian	9	8	8
Moray	11	7	0
North Ayrshire	3	6	8
North Lanarkshire	12	13	7
Orkney	4	4	4
Perth and Kinross	10	10	11
Renfrewshire	8	9	10
Scottish Borders	6	0	0
Shetland	2	9	2
South Ayrshire	0	2	5
South Lanarkshire	15	25	16
West Dunbartonshire	3	3	1
West Lothian	11	11	11
Western Isles	6	7	6

Question reference: S7W-01832

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 July 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 17 August 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of whether any delays in the adoption of medical technologies, including multigene assays for breast cancer patients, risk undermining Scotland’s ability to attract life sciences investment and maintain its reputation for clinical innovation.

Question reference: S7W-01831

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 July 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 17 August 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to address concerns of a so-called postcode lottery in access to genomic testing for breast cancer patients, and whether this includes accelerating the evaluation of multigene assays through Healthcare Improvement Scotland and the Scottish Health Technologies Group.

Question reference: S7W-01838

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 July 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 17 August 2026

To ask the Scottish Government (a) which NHS boards and (b) how many GP practices have contacted it raising concerns regarding the rollout of the new IT system, Vision.