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.
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To ask the Scottish Government what the projected annual costs to local authorities are of implementing the High Hedges (Scotland) Act 2013.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the relative efficacy of using a (a) four and (b) 12 week quit rate as a smoking cessation metric.
To ask the Scottish Government how many pre-operative patients have been referred to smoking cessation services in each of the last five years.
To ask the Scottish Government when each (a) NHS board and (b) hospital will achieve the (i) target of 95% and (ii) national waiting time standard of 98% of people attending accident and emergency being admitted, transferred or discharged within four hours.
To ask the Scottish Government what the cost was of hospital admissions related to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in the last year for which information is available.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to encourage GPs to refer patients with (a) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, (b) diabetes and (c) asthma who smoke to smoking cessation services.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to encourage people with long-term conditions to quit smoking.
To ask the Scottish Government how many deaths have been related to smoking in each of the last five years.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the (a) impact and (b) effectiveness of smoking cessation services.
To ask the Scottish Government what recent assessment it has made of how many people with (a) chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, (b) diabetes and (c) asthma smoke.