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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: S6W-37234

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 13 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government when a review of the emergency department opt-out blood borne virus testing pilot will be complete, and whether there are any initial findings to report.

The Scottish Government’s recently published Programme for Government includes a commitment to begin roll out of Emergency Department opt-out testing for blood borne viruses in NHS Lothian and NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, with further expansion considered if emerging evidence supports this. Work is ongoing to evaluate and collate the findings from the pilots in Scotland with the currently available evidence supporting roll-out in areas of higher diagnosed prevalence.

Question reference: S6W-37274

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 13 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-31009 by Jenny Gilruth on 12 November 2024, what percentage of primary school teachers who completed the Teacher Induction Scheme in the academic year 2023-24 secured permanent full-time teaching positions by August 2024, and how this compares with the previous five years.

Question reference: S6W-37273

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 13 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many antisocial behaviour incidents have been reported to Police Scotland in each of the last five years, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S6W-37235

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 13 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the current monthly cost of chartering the MV Alfred, and whether that cost has changed since the initial date of the charter.

Question reference: S6W-37434

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S6W-37432

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S6O-04661

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 May 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with charitable and third sector organisations regarding the decision not to introduce legislation to end conversion therapy practices, and other equalities-related legislation, during the current parliamentary session.

Question reference: S6O-04637

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 April 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what further consideration it has given to increasing or removing the earnings limit for recipients of the Carer Support Payment.

Question reference: S6W-36494

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Independent
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 April 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 28 April 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what action is being taken to increase the uptake of abdominal aortic aneurysm screening in NHS Ayrshire and Arran, in light of recently reported local health warnings.

The Scottish Government is unaware of any particular concerns regarding uptake of abdominal aortic aneurysm screening in NHS Ayrshire and Arran. The social media posts reported in the press were routine reminders posted by NHS Ayrshire and Arran as part of a targeted campaign to raise awareness of all national screening programmes.

The latest Public Health Scotland report shows that 83.5% of men in Ayrshire and Arran attended abdominal aortic aneurysm (AAA) screening by the age of 66 years and 3 months for 2023/24. This exceeds the acceptable standard of 75%, and the national average of 77.3%. In addition, uptake was above the acceptable standard for men in all of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation quintiles.

Question reference: S6W-36496

Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Independent
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 April 2025
Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 24 April 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many victims of crime have been notified of their perpetrator's release from prison in a timely manner as part of the automatic early release rules under the Prisoners (Early Release) (Scotland) Act 2025, and what steps it is taking to ensure that all victims are informed of such releases.

I have asked Teresa Medhurst, Chief Executive of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), to respond. Her response is as follows:

SPS and Scottish Government worked directly with Victim Support Organisations including, Victim Support Scotland ahead of automatic early release under the Prisoners (early Release) (Scotland) Act 2025, to raise awareness and encourage those who were eligible to sign up to the Victim Notification Scheme (VNS).

All registered victims, where the offender’s release date changed as a result of the above legislation, were notified of the new release date ahead of the offender’s release from SPS custody. In total SPS’ VNS team notified 33 registered victims.