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
Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.
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Question reference: S5W-12668
- Asked by: Tom Mason, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 22 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that the business rates relief system is free of loopholes that prevent businesses that are reliant on relief from receiving it.
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Question reference: S5W-12669
- Asked by: Tom Mason, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde's funding per head reportedly increased by twice as much as NHS Grampian's from 2015-16 to 2016-17.
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Question reference: S5W-12673
- Asked by: Tom Mason, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that NHS Grampian does not receive lower funding per head than other territorial NHS boards.
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Question reference: S5W-12671
- Asked by: Tom Mason, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve NHS Grampian's record in meeting the eight key performance targets.
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Question reference: S5W-12672
- Asked by: Tom Mason, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on using mortality rates of people under the age of 75 as a benchmark for deprivation when calculating funding per head in (a) NHS Grampian and (b) other territorial NHS boards.
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Question reference: S5W-11541
- Asked by: Tom Mason, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that officials from NHS Grampian are to travel to Australia to recruit nurses.
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Question reference: S5W-11544
- Asked by: Tom Mason, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to increase nursing recruitment from within Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-11268
- Asked by: Tom Mason, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 September 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of people convicted of assault with the use of a knife received a custodial sentence of up to 12 months in each of the last three years.
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Question reference: S5W-11263
- Asked by: Tom Mason, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 September 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what strategy it has in place to deal with knife crime, and what the impact on this would be of extending the presumption against criminal sentences of up to 12 months.
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Question reference: S5W-11159
- Asked by: Tom Mason, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 22 September 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-01200 by Derek Mackay on 6 September 2017 (Official Report, c. 6), what impact the policy agenda announced in its Programme for Government will have on the size of the notional budget deficit of £13.3 billion that was set out in the Government Expenditure and Revenue Scotland (GERS) report.