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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: S4W-14493

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 3 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will fully fund council tax support for 2014-15.

Question reference: S4W-14492

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 3 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with COSLA about council tax rebates for 2014-15.

Question reference: S4F-01367

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 02 May 2013
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 May 2013

To ask the First Minister whether the reported comments of the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing that “we are still going to need the same number of beds, the same number of hospitals, the same number of doctors and nurses just to stand still” in relation to an ageing population reflect Scottish Government policy.

Question reference: S4W-14312

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 2 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government how many of its media and communications staff work (a) in and (b) with its health and social care directorate and what the total salary costs are.

Currently 14.1 Full Time Equivalent (FTE) communications staff supports the work of Health Ministers and the Director General Health and Social Care/Chief Executive of NHSScotland, who is responsible for seven Directorates in the Scottish Government. There is no Directorate for Health and Social Care. Of these FTE, 10.1 work in the Communications Directorate, while a further four work in other directorates.

These staff work on media, digital and stakeholder communications, including communications with the 132,000 staff working in NHSScotland and the 700 staff in the Scottish Government's health directorates. They also deliver the Scottish Government's public health campaigns, including Detect Cancer Early and Organ Donation. In addition to health policy, staff also work on the Commonwealth Games and sport policy.

The total 2012-13 annual staffing cost, (which covers salary and employer costs; e.g. pensions and NI, and the cost of employing any secondees) was £809,000.

Question reference: S4W-14286

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 22 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-13201 by Alex Neil on 7 March 2013, whether Health Protection Scotland has produced board, hospitals and ward prevalence information on norovirus.

Question reference: S4W-14273

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 1 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether access to child and adolescent mental health services is available for children in kinship care on the same priority basis as for those in foster care.

Question reference: S4W-14285

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 22 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-12975 by Alex Neil on 7 March 2013, whether the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service has decided whether further action will be taken in relation to the Elsie Inglis Care Home.

Question reference: S4W-14284

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 22 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-12971 by Alex Neil on 7 March 2013, whether it is aware of the decision of the Scottish Ambulance Service not to publish the report of the investigation and, if so, what its position is on this matter.

Question reference: S4W-14283

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 22 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-12972 by Alex Neil on 7 March 2013, whether it considers that the Scottish Ambulance Service should publish the report into the investigation of claims of bullying and intimidation at the Scottish Ambulance Academy.

Question reference: S4W-14350

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 April 2013
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 1 May 2013

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has received complaints about the Director of Delivery of NHS Health Scotland and, if so, how many.