Questions and answers
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-01546
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it has had with the Royal College of General Practitioners on the new GP contract.
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Question reference: S5W-01544
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many of the new posts announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport on 7 June 2016 (Official Report, c. 8) will (a) represent additional staff and (b) be reallocation from existing positions.
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Question reference: S5W-01230
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government when its Policy Priorities scheme for grant funding via the Chief Scientist Office will be launched.
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Question reference: S5W-01228
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the value has been of its medical research budget in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S5W-01227
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how much medical research funding it has provided to (a) motor neurone disease, (b) multiple sclerosis (MS), (c) stroke, (d) heart disease and (e) cancer since 2011.
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Question reference: S5W-01229
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what work it is doing to support Scottish-based medical researchers following the EU referendum result.
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Question reference: S5W-01226
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether priorities for its Policy Priorities scheme for grant funding via the Chief Scientist Office have been identified and, if so, whether it will publish these.
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Question reference: S5W-01330
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 27 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what steps are being taken to ensure the introduction of opt-out blood borne virus testing in prisons.
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Question reference: S5W-01331
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 27 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that Scotland is able to eliminate viral hepatitis as a public health threat by 2030 and by what date it expects to have eliminated it.
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Question reference: S5W-01142
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 27 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the number and country of origin of NHS staff from other EU member states in each year since 2007.