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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: S7W-02966
- Asked by: Joe Fagan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
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- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the Programme for Government announcement on local government reform, what discussions it had with COSLA prior to the announcement, what criteria it will use in identifying local authorities that might be candidates for merger, and whether it has identified any potential such local authorities and, if so, which.
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Question reference: S7W-02981
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its commitment in the 2026-2031 Programme for Government to invest an additional £250 million in its national mission on drugs, whether this represents new funding or a continuation of funding allocated during the previous parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S7W-02979
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its commitment in the 2026-2031 Programme for Government to improve cancer care by increasing the number of radiographers, how many additional radiographers will be recruited in each year of the current parliamentary session and how much additional funding will be allocated for that purpose.
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Question reference: S7W-02985
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the August 2026 publication of the Fifth Universal Definition of Myocardial Infarction by the European Society of Cardiology, American College of Cardiology, American Heart Association and World Heart Federation, what assessment it has made of the implications for NHS Scotland.
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Question reference: S7W-02969
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the latest Scottish Stroke Care Audit data does not provide comprehensive reporting on stroke rehabilitation, and what measures it is taking to assure patients that appropriate levels of therapy and specialist staffing are being delivered consistently across every NHS board.
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Question reference: S7W-02974
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comments by the First Minister during First Minister's Questions on 3 September 2026 regarding "a planning appeal relating to a proposed green data centre in Edinburgh", what specific characteristics of the proposed development led the First Minister to describe it as a "green data centre".
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Question reference: S7W-02899
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its commitment in the 2026-2031 Programme for Government that no patient will wait more than 26 weeks for the treatment they need by the end of 2031, (a) what modelling has been undertaken to assess whether this target is achievable, (b) what its position is on why previous waiting-time targets have not been met, and (c) when waits of more than 52 weeks will be eradicated.
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Question reference: S7W-02973
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what the Cabinet Secretary for Public Service Reform was referring to when, during the members' business debate on motion S7M-00428 (AI Data Centres) on 3 September 2026, he stated that "we are taking forward a strategy to consider all those issues", whether it plans to develop a new strategy in relation to data centres, and when any such strategy will be published.
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Question reference: S7W-02977
- Asked by: Kayleigh Kinross-O'Neill, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine's recommendation that hospital bed occupancy should not exceed 85% in order to support safe patient flow and provide surge capacity, whether it will adopt 85% hospital bed occupancy as a national performance metric and, if so, what action it will take to support NHS boards to maintain that level of occupancy.
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Question reference: S7W-02970
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 21 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what specific support and interventions it is providing to NHS boards that continue to perform poorly against the objectives of the Scottish Stroke Improvement Plan, including NHS Forth Valley, NHS Borders and NHS Lanarkshire, and what action it is taking to address the significant regional variation in delivery of the inpatient stroke care bundle across Scotland.
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