This search includes all content on the Scottish Parliament website, except for Votes and Motions. All Official Reports (what has been said in Parliament) and Questions and Answers are available from 1999. You can refine your search by adding and removing filters.
Our advisers suggest that the instrument be categorised as being of high significance under the SSI protocol, as it gives the Scottish ministers new powers to legislate. Does the committee wish to recommend that the instrument should be categorised as being of high significance?
We will have a short suspension to allow for a change of witnesses. 11:26 Meeting suspended. 11:32 On resuming— Our next panel of witnesses is from Police Scotland.
I have been in contact with GPs in my area in Glasgow who described any improvement to services or deployment of new technology being constrained by a practice’s capacity to take itself offline to deliver any new system or to train staff.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 March 2021
Transport Scotland officials have had limited discussions with the UK Government regarding the publication of the interim report of their Union Connectivity Review (UCR). On 26 November 2020 I spoke to Sir Peter Hendy, who is leading the UCR, to discuss this work.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
21 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many positive results from tests for COVID-19 there were on each day between 26 July and 19 August 2020, also expressed as a percentage of the total number of tests carried out in each NHS board area.
Since the launch Health Boards management information shows that for the week ending 26 April, urgent suspected cancer referrals have increased and are now approximate 55% of the pre COVID-19 level.
This portal has been very successful with over 23,000 applicants offering their support. As 26 May 2020, 71 midwives have completed an expression of interest form on the portal.
To ask the Scottish Government how quickly it can use its new legislative powers to respond to the COVID-19 outbreak to prohibit gatherings, including for commercial, leisure, religious or other purposes.