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-26481
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what the purpose is of its policy to make music tuition free in schools, and what its response is to reports that the policy could lead to a ban on private tuition during school hours and require paid lessons to be arranged outwith the school day.
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Question reference: S6W-25562
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 14 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that long COVID patients in Scotland have been refused ill health retirement pensions because they have not attended a long COVID clinic.
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Question reference: S6W-25561
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 14 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government which agencies or companies are being used by public sector pension scheme agencies, including the Scottish Public Pensions Agency, to conduct medical assessments such as assessments for ill health retirement pension applications, also broken down by the geographical area in which these agencies or companies are located.
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Question reference: S6W-25560
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 14 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) it and (b) public sector pension agencies, including the Scottish Public Pensions Agency, (i) have taken or (ii) will take steps to ensure that companies or agencies that conduct medical assessments of public sector workers with long COVID are made aware that long COVID clinics do not exist in some areas of Scotland, on the basis that NHS boards make their own arrangements for long COVID treatment, in order to ensure that ill health retirement pension applications are not refused simply due to the lack of attendance at a long COVID clinic.
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Question reference: S6W-25563
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 15 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 14 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether existing criteria for conducting medical assessments of public sector workers with long COVID, in relation to ill health retirement pension applications, reflect that long COVID clinics do not exist in some areas of Scotland, and, if not, what action it can take to ensure that this is the case.
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Question reference: S6W-25699
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 8 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to deliver a new Monklands Hospital.
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Question reference: S6W-25700
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 5 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has invested in the NHS estate in each year of the current parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S6W-25701
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 4 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to implementing fully digitalised booking for primary care appointments.
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Question reference: S6W-25703
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 4 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to end all non-residential social care charges in the current parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S6W-25702
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Friday, 23 February 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 29 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what methodology it uses to evaluate the sufficiency of current primary care provision.