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: S6W-03517
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the comments in its Programme for Government regarding the increased demand for genetic and molecular diagnostic testing linked to new advanced medicines, what steps NHS Scotland is taking to identify as early as possible the required tests for any medicine being considered by the Scottish Medicines Consortium (SMC), in order to prevent any delay between the SMC accepting a medicine and it being available to patients.
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Question reference: S6W-03516
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government which genomic tests that identify companion biomarkers for access to medicines accepted by the Scottish Medicines Consortium are not currently available in NHS Scotland, and what the timeline is for these tests to be available to NHS Scotland patients.
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Question reference: S6W-03514
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its Programme for Government to invest in genetic labs and frontline genetics services, what process it will undertake to establish what new tests should be made available in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-03515
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government which genomic tests that are commissioned by the NHS in England and listed in the NHS England Genomic Test Directory are not currently available in NHS Scotland, and what the timeline is for these tests to be available to NHS Scotland patients.
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Question reference: S6W-03512
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 October 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 25 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its announcement in March 2021 of a £13 million investment in the year 2021-22 to establish Scotland’s own genomic sequencing service to support the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, what progress has been made on this, and how it will be expanded to include human genomics in line with the genomic strategies across the rest of the UK.
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Question reference: S6T-00085
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 June 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the disturbing events at Euro 2020 with a player experiencing a cardiac arrest on the pitch, whether it will consider subsidising automated external defibrillator purchases for amateur sports grounds.
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Question reference: S6O-00041
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 June 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what impact the presumption against short sentences has had on the number of people who are sent to jail for assaulting emergency workers.
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Question reference: S6O-00011
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 June 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing to encourage new entrants into farming.