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: S5W-18497
- Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 25 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-17784 by Jeane Freeman on 23 August 2018, whether NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has received the additional £5.6 million of funding on top of the £5.6 million already made available to the board.
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Question reference: S5W-18499
- Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 25 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide figures that demonstrate the average patient waiting time across Scotland for diagnostic imaging test results.
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Question reference: S5W-18500
- Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 18 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many whole time equivalent consultant radiologist vacancies there are as of August 2018, and how many of these posts have been vacant for six months or more.
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Question reference: S5O-02337
- Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 September 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 12 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making with its policy to tackle climate change, and whether it will provide an update on what action it is taking to expand the electric vehicle charging infrastructure as part of this.
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Question reference: S5W-17486
- Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 June 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 30 July 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what financial support will be available from local authorities in advance of 2020 to assist private nurseries with the delivery of 1,140 hours of childcare, and how this support will meet its stated objectives of affordability, sustainability, flexibility and choice.
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Question reference: S5O-02287
- Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 June 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 27 June 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its response to the Local Government and Communities Committee’s stage 1 report on the Planning (Scotland) Bill, what its position is on whether there is a case for extending the Agent of Change principle and for placing it on a statutory footing.
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Question reference: S5O-02231
- Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 June 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 June 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when it last met NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
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Question reference: S5W-17050
- Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 June 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 14 June 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to the potential impact of establishing a safer drug consumption facility on organised crime groups operating in Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-17049
- Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 June 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 12 June 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to research commissioned by Social Bite, which indicates that the number of homeless households in hostels across Scotland has increased by 43% since 2010.
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Question reference: S5W-16718
- Asked by: Adam Tomkins, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 May 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 5 June 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the work of the Enterprise and Skills Strategic Board since November 2017.