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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: S5O-00265

Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 October 2016
Current Status: Awaiting answer

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to review the report, Scotland's Digital Future: A Strategy for Scotland.

Question reference: S5W-02418

Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to centrally funding the Centre for Integrative Care at Gartnavel Hospital to ensure that it can continue to provide its services.

It is not a matter for the Scottish Government to designate a centre or facility as a national resource to receive centralised funding. The Centre for Integrative Care is operated by NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde, and is therefore commissioned and funded by the NHS Board via their annual revenue allocation.

A highly specialised clinical service may be considered for national designation through application to the National Specialist Service Committee. Full information about highly specialised services and the application process for national designation is available at the following website:

http://www.nsd.scot.nhs.uk/about/nssc.html.

Question reference: S5W-02416

Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions ministers have had regarding the future of the Centre for Integrative Care at Gartnavel Hospital regarding the retention of inpatient services.

Question reference: S5W-02417

Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 September 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of proposals to remove inpatient services at the Centre for Integrative Care at Gartnavel Hospital.

Question reference: S5W-02066

Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 19 August 2016
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 8 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government when it will respond to the recommendations of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland, which were submitted in May 2016.

The Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland published and submitted to Scottish Ministers on 26 May 2016 its final recommendations for the number of councillors and the electoral ward boundaries in each of Scotland's 32 local authorities, following completion of its fifth electoral reviews.

Ministers have been considering those recommendations, and will announce their decisions for all local authority areas included in the recommendations, on whether to implement them in early course and at the same time.

Question reference: S5W-02067

Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 19 August 2016
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 8 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland view that Glasgow City Council should be comprised of 85 councillors representing seven three-member wards and sixteen four-member wards.

Question reference: S5W-02065

Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 19 August 2016
Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 8 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the recommendations of the Local Government Boundary Commission for Scotland for Glasgow City, which were submitted in May 2016.

Question reference: S5O-00110

Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2016
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 7 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government when the strategic market labour group will be established.

Question reference: S5W-00132

Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 19 May 2016
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 31 May 2016

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the report in the Daily Record on 29 March 2016 that the Scottish Information Commissioner was minded to delay announcing decisions that might be critical of ministers until after the 2016 Scottish election, whether it is aware of the commissioner delaying such announcements in previous periods of purdah.

Question reference: S5W-00133

Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 19 May 2016
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 31 May 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to introduce (a) legislative or (b) other proposals regarding the scope and application of purdah on the duties of the Scottish Information Commissioner and the commissioner's ability to announce decisions.