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
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Question reference: S6W-44347
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-43802 by Graeme Dey on 5 March 2026, for what reason the First Minister provided confidential information from the Lord Advocate to special advisers, in light of them being political appointees.
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Question reference: S6W-44348
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-43803 by Graeme Dey on 5 March 2026, whether it will publish all information that has been shared by the Lord Advocate with the Scottish Ministers since 1999 on live criminal cases that was not in the public domain at the time.
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Question reference: S6W-44361
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-43799 by Dorothy Bain on 11 March 2026, and in light of the answer only including selected examples, whether it will provide all the information requested regarding whether the Lord Advocate has ever contacted any minister or special adviser about any criminal case, aside from the case against Peter Murrell, and, if so, on what occasions, and who was contacted, and for what reason it did not provide this information in its answer.
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Question reference: S6W-44360
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-43847 by Dorothy Bain on 11 March 2026, whether it will provide the information requested regarding how many times the Lord Advocate has advised ministers of an indictment in criminal cases, and in which cases, and for what reason it did not provide this information in its answer.
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Question reference: S6W-44366
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it monitors the number of mixed-sex wards in the NHS.
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Question reference: S6W-44365
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government how many mixed-sex wards in the NHS there (a) were in 2007 and (b) currently are.
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Question reference: S6W-44374
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Minister for Public Health and Women's Health held a ministerial cross party group meeting following the publication of the report, How Safe Are Our Scottish Hospitals, and, if so, when any such meeting took place, and what issues were discussed.
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Question reference: S6W-44364
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce the number of mixed-sex wards in the NHS.
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Question reference: S6W-44372
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government how many sexual assaults have taken place in hospitals in each year since 2024-25, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S6W-44375
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what has changed since the publication of the How Safe Are Our Scottish Hospitals report in March 2025.
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