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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)
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Question reference: S5O-00597

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2017
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 25 January 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde regarding the board's maternity unit review.

Ministers and Government officials regularly discuss matters of local importance such as these with Health boards.

The Board of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde agreed with the view of the Scottish Health Council at its meeting in December that its proposals in relation to Clyde birthing services represented major change. The Board were also clear that they will take full account of the National Maternity and Neonatal Services Review, published on the 20th of January, before progressing any proposals to change maternity services in Inverclyde and at the Vale of Leven. As the existing proposals have been designated major, should they be taken forward, they must still subject to formal public consultation and, ultimately, Ministerial approval.

Question reference: S5W-05968

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 January 2017
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 18 January 2017

To ask the Scottish Government when it was made aware of importing and exporting changes affecting Dalbergia species as a result of the UK signing up to new international regulations.

Question reference: S5W-05969

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 January 2017
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 18 January 2017

To ask the Scottish Government whether the UK Government made it aware of the possibility of importing and exporting changes affecting Dalbergia species and, if so, when.

Question reference: S5W-05970

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 January 2017
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 18 January 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what action (a) it has and (b) its agencies have taken to assist businesses that use Dalbergia species to manufacture their products since the UK signed up to new international regulations on its import and export.

The Scottish Government has not had discussions with businesses that use Dalbergia to manufacture their products.

The Scottish Government is aware that there was a meeting of the CITES Sustainable Users Group (a forum for traders in CITES species to discuss relevant issues) on 12 January 2017. The Scottish Government understands that UK Government officials from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the Animal and Plant Health Agency, (the UK CITES Management Authority) attend those meetings.

Question reference: S5W-05971

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 January 2017
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 18 January 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the Music Industries Association regarding the manufacture of instruments made from Dalbergia species since the UK signed up to new international regulations on its import and export.

Question reference: S5W-05967

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 05 January 2017
Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 18 January 2017

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding the importing and exporting of products made from Dalbergia species.

The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is an international agreement to ensure that international trade in specimens of wild animals and plants does not threaten their survival. CITES is reserved to the UK Government, and is administered by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). The Scottish Government discussed issues related to the importing and exporting of products made from Dalbergia species with DEFRA and the Animal and Plant Health Agency, which is the UK CITES Management Authority, in December 2016.

Question reference: S5F-00784

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 16 January 2017
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 January 2017

To ask the First Minister what procedures are in place to ensure that the necessary treatment and care in maternity wards is provided at peak times.

Question reference: S5F-00740

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 09 January 2017
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 January 2017

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's position is on reports that there has been a record number of drink drivers stopped over the festive period.

Question reference: S5O-00486

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 December 2016
Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 15 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding proposals to pay for access to the single market.

The Scottish Government has not received any information of this sort from the UK Government. We have made clear in our engagement with the UK Government, including at the Joint Ministerial Committee on European Negotiations which met for the second time on 7 December 2016, that protecting our social and economic interests means staying in the single market. We will present a proposition for discussion with the UK Government shortly, which will be focused on keeping us in the single market even if the rest of the UK decides to leave. The next meeting of the Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) will be January 2017.

Question reference: S5W-05064

Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 25 November 2016
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 December 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what provisions are in place to ensure that health information is provided in accessible formats, and what information it has regarding how many different formats have been offered by each NHS board.

The Patient Charter clearly sets out patients’ rights and responsibilities and what patients can expect when they use NHS Scotland Services and receive care; that includes the right to be given the information they need in a format or language they can understand.

Although information is not held centrally on the range of different formats offered by NHS Boards in providing accessible information, under the Equality Act 2010, all Boards are required, to provide translation & interpreting services and written material wherever possible and reasonable. All Boards have a published accessibility policy and arrangements in place to support such needs.

A new service from NHS inform, Scotland’s national health information service, further enhances accessibility through the introduction of a new accessibility tool. “Browsealoud” is now available on NHSinform.scot, allowing content to be read aloud, simplified, converted to MP3, magnified, highlighted, or translated into alternative languages.