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: S6W-00914
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 5 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when the National Advisory Committee on Chronic Pain will report to Ministers on a new Framework on Chronic Pain Delivery.
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Question reference: S6W-00875
- Asked by: Sue Webber, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 5 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many children in each (a) local authority and (b) NHS board area have been born drug-dependent in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S6W-00871
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 5 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government on what date the Clinical Priorities Unit began issuing the most recent guidance provided by the Faculty of Pain Medicine, the changes of which came into effect on 29 July 2020.
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Question reference: S6W-00803
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 5 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what arrangements have been put in place to help chronic pain patients who are overdue to receive pain relief injections, some of whom have not received an injection in 15 months.
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Question reference: S6W-00801
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 5 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government on what date it became aware of the view of the Faculty of Medicine that injections for pain relief could continue during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Question reference: S6W-00990
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether indoor, close contact music lessons can take place under COVID-19 restriction level (a) 0, (b) 1 and (c) 2 provided the household and person limits are not exceeded and if music tutors are permitted to make use of instruments in another person's home for teaching purposes.
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Question reference: S6W-00805
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 5 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it monitors the quality of information that is provided to (a) the public and (b) MSPs by the Clinical Priorities Unit in order to ensure that it is accurate and up-to-date, in light of reports of chronic pain patients not being informed that expert advice allowed for injections to resume from 29 July 2020.
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Question reference: S6W-00804
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 5 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have waited more than six months for their regular pain relief injections since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and whether plans for a "catch-up" programme will be put in place.
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Question reference: S6W-01193
- Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 July 2021
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Humza Yousaf on 2 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what financial support will be made available to NHS Boards in responding to COVID-19 in 2021-22.
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Question reference: S6W-00961
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 2 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on providing vouchers for one free NHS dental check-up for new mothers that can be redeemed after the baby’s first birthday if the mothers were unable to access this service before the birthday because of COVID-19 restrictions.