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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: S5W-24539

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has provided funding for the Pause Programme in Dundee and, if so, whether it plans to continue to do so in future years.

The Scottish Government has received a funding application from Pause for the Pause Dundee pilot. The grant funding process has not yet been concluded and no funding has been provided by the Scottish Government.

We are committed to working with local authorities and partners to provide support for women with complex and challenging needs who have frequent pregnancies, but whose children are taken into care.

Question reference: S5W-24593

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 28 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the report in The Guardian on 25 July 2019 regarding hazardous clinical waste originating from the UK that has recently been discovered in Sri Lanka, what information it has regarding whether this includes clinical waste originating from Scotland.

Question reference: S5W-24592

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 28 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what action it has taken in response to the report in the Herald on Sunday on 17 February 2019 that that nearly 30 tonnes of high-risk clinical waste appears to have gone missing.

Question reference: S5W-24673

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recent announcement by ScotRail that Glasgow Queen Street, Aberdeen, Inverness and Fort William train stations will not remove charges for access to toilets and plan to increase charges from 30p to 50p.

Question reference: S5W-24594

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 28 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether clinical waste will be exported to other countries under its contract with Tradebe.

Question reference: S5W-24595

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 28 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of the due diligence that it carried out prior to appointing Tradebe to dispose of clinical waste, and what consideration it made of the reported penalties that the company had been subject to because of environmental and workplace health and safety violations.

Question reference: S5W-24674

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 27 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the announcement by ScotRail that toilet charges will continue in four stations in Scotland, what its response is to research by Age Scotland that states that older people may not make journeys that do not have a convenient toilet stop.

Question reference: S5W-24765

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 27 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many times in the last 12 months it has met the UK Government to discuss the supply of hormone replacement therapy.

Question reference: S5W-24616

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 21 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken to ensure that the general standards in neurological health services are implemented universally across NHS.

Organisations delivering services are responsible for implementing the standards at a local level, and local quality frameworks and procedures will assist them in monitoring progress.

As part of the draft National Action Plan, we have included a commitment to promote and support the implementation of the Healthcare Improvement Scotland General Standards for Neurological Care and Support 2018.

In developing the National Action Plan (on Neurological Conditions) we are actively considering national governance arrangements, which will include intelligence gathered on implementation of the HIS standards.

Question reference: S5W-24541

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 01 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 21 August 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, what its response is to reports of high influenza activity early in the season in Australia and across the Southern Hemisphere; what impact this could have on influenza activity in Scotland, and what action it will take in response to this.

We are closely monitoring the current flu season in Australia and will use any transferrable evidence and learning from Australia to strengthen approaches for Scotland.

While evaluating the Southern Hemisphere’s flu season is useful for our own planning it does not necessarily mean that the Northern Hemisphere will experience the same flu season next winter.

The best way for people to defend themselves from the flu is to be vaccinated. A new flu campaign for the 2019-20 Scottish season will launch in Autumn and work is underway to ensure effective planning is in place.