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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.

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Question reference: S6W-43715

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 13 February 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 27 February 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of World Health Organization Resolution 76.6, adopted in May 2023, which recognises rehabilitation as essential to universal health coverage and calls for its integration across all levels of care, particularly primary care, alongside strengthened workforce, financing and emergency preparedness, what steps it has taken to strengthen rehabilitation services.

Question reference: S6W-43652

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 26 February 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the UK Government's press release of 3 February 2026, Government to cover travel costs of children with cancer, which accepted the proposal by Young Lives vs Cancer for a £10 million travel fund to support the cost of the young people travelling for treatment, what (a) steps it will take to ensure parity for children and under-25s in Scotland who have cancer with those in England, (b) discussions it has held with the UK Government regarding the implementation of the fund, and whether these will inform any decisions about expanding the Young Patients Family Fund eligibility criteria to include all such young people, including those receiving treatment as day-patients, and (c) assessment it has carried out of any impact on reducing health inequalities of expanding the Young Patients Family Fund's eligibility criteria to include these young people.

Question reference: S6W-43672

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 26 February 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, regarding its draft Budget 2026-27 and the associated level 4 tables, whether it will provide a detailed breakdown of the £1,052.7 million allocation in the budget line, "Health Capital Investment".

Question reference: S6W-43699

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 February 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 26 February 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how many appointments per week on average were delivered using the NHS service, Near Me, in each financial year from 2021-22 to 2025-26.

Question reference: S6W-43500

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 February 2026
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 12 February 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how many MRI scanners each NHS board has.

Question reference: S6W-43505

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 February 2026
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 12 February 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what the process is for Healthcare Infection Incident Assessment reports, and under what circumstances ministers are notified of these.

The process for Healthcare Infection Incident Assessment reports is detailed in Appendix 14 of the National Infection Prevention and Control Manual (NIPCM).

The Infection Prevention and Control Team (IPCT) or Health Protection Team (HPT) for community incidents, will assess the impact of a healthcare associated infection (HCAI) incident/outbreak using the Healthcare Associated Infection Incident Assessment Tool (HIIAT). The HIIAT has 2 main functions, to assess the impact of infection and supporting a single channel of communication and reporting. This communication is both internally within an NHS Board and externally to Antimicrobial Resistance and Healthcare Associated Infection (ARHAI) Scotland as well as the Scottish Government.

The impact assessment is based on 4 categories; severity of illness, impact on service(s), risk of transmission and public anxiety. For each category, the IPCT or HPT will score the incident either minor, moderate or major. Based on this, each incident will be given an overall impact calculation of either green, amber or red. An individual member of the IPCT or HPT will usually undertake the initial risk assessment as part of a problem assessment group (PAG).

The current process for HIIAT reports ensures that ARHAI Scotland routinely notify Scottish Government officials of incidents assessed as amber or red, whilst green incidents may be shared if there is a particular need, for example because of a prior interest or a rare pathogen.

Officials and a professional IPC nursing advisor review each incident to determine whether these should be brought to the attention of Ministers. A range of factors are considered when this assessment is being made including: the nature and sensitivity of the incident, the type of pathogen, the extent of how patients, their families/ visitors, healthcare staff and/ or services are affected, any risk of further transmission and other contextual factors we may be aware of in the particular Health Board.

Question reference: S6W-43502

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 02 February 2026
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 12 February 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how many Healthcare Infection Incident Assessment reports were received from (a) NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde, (b) NHS Lothian and (c) other NHS boards, broken down by hospital, between 2015 and March 2018, also broken down by how many were red alerts and notified to ministers, and what action was taken in each case.

Question reference: S6W-43666

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 25 February 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, further to its publication, Our Health and Social Care App: MyCare.scot - National Rollout High-Level Summary, what the total annual estimated cost is of building and operating the MyCare.scot app in each financial year from 2025-26 to 2029-30.

Question reference: S6W-43650

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 25 February 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the draft Scottish Budget 2026-27 and the level 4 tables that were published in conjunction with it, whether it will provide a breakdown of the £1,275.1 million in funding set aside for NHS Delivery.

Question reference: S6W-43647

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 February 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 25 February 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what the total cost is of a (a) Hospital Specialty and (b) General Practice Specialty Training Programme place.