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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-24760

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 4 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-24371 by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 August 2019, which NHS boards have waiting lists for access to pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), broken down by the waiting time.

Question reference: S5W-24689

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 12 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 3 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the provisional levels of spending for the Tackling Child Poverty Fund set out in the report, Every Child, Every Chance: Tackling Child Poverty Delivery Plan: First year Progress Report 2018-19, to what areas or projects the remaining £18 million of the Fund will be allocated.

Question reference: S5T-01752

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 02 September 2019
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government by what date the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh will open.

Question reference: S5W-24659

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government when the Royal Hospital for Sick Children was due to be handed to developers; what flexibility there is in this arrangement, and whether NHS Lothian will incur any penalties for a late handover.

Question reference: S5W-24663

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports in The Herald on 6 August 2019, whether its representatives on the project board of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People were aware of the minutes of a meeting of NHS Lothian’s Finance and Resources Committee in September 2018, which refer to “residual technical issues” impacting on the project “with the key issue being around drainage systems”, and on what date these issues were communicated to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport.

Question reference: S5W-24658

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what the estimated cost is of repairing the parts of (a) the ventilation, (b) the drainage and (c) any other system that have been found to be faulty since the handover of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People from Integrated Health Solutions Lothian to NHS Lothian in February 2019, and who is liable to pay each cost.

Question reference: S5W-24654

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will place in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) all (a) correspondence and (b) minutes of meetings it has had with NHS Lothian in the last two years regarding the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People and closure of the Royal Hospital for Sick Children.

Question reference: S5W-24653

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government who independently certified and signed off the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People on 22 February 2019 when it was handed over to NHS Lothian; who appointed the independent certifier; how long the assessment took; what it involved, and whether (a) it and (b) NHS Lothian agreed with the findings.

Question reference: S5W-24641

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what the ventilation issue at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People involves, and what percentage of the site’s footprint was found to have ventilation that did not meet the required standards.

Question reference: S5W-24643

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what the air rate change per hour was found to be in critical care wards at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, and how this compares to that required in regulations.