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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: S5F-04922

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 22 March 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 March 2021

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5W-33758

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2020
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 19 March 2021

To ask the Scottish Government by what date it expects people with cancer to receive the COVID-19 vaccine.

Patients with specific types of cancer are included in Group 4 and 6 of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) priority list. To date on 11 of March, 163,111 people who are Clinically Extremely Vulnerable (CEV: 91% of those on the shielding list) have received their first dose. This number includes those that are cancer patients.

The vaccination for Group 6 is currently taking place which will include cancer patients as well. A person can therefore move in and out of these two groups (Group 4 and Group 6) with time, rather than being static in one group, particularly with cancer as the disease may progress with time and their treatment may also change.

The full JCVI priority list is currently:

1. residents in a care home for older adults and their carers

2. all those 80 years of age and over, and frontline health and social care workers

3. all those 75 years of age and over

4. all those 70 years of age and over, and clinically extremely vulnerable individuals

5. all those 65 years of age and over

6. all those 16 years to 64 years with underlying health conditions which put them at higher risk of serious disease and mortality

7. all those 60 years of age and over

8. all those 55 years of age and over

9. all those 50 years of age and over

Our intention (supplies permitting) is to have offered first doses to everyone on the JCVI priority list by mid-April. Beyond that, again assuming we receive adequate supply, we will aim to have offered first doses to the entire adult population by the end of July, rather than September as previously anticipated. All of our planning across the UK is predicated on supply forecasts from the UK Government.

Question reference: S5F-04898

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 15 March 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 March 2021

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-04880

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 08 March 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 March 2021

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-04860

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 01 March 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 4 March 2021

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-04835

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 22 February 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 February 2021

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-04816

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 15 February 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 February 2021

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-04792

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 08 February 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 February 2021

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5O-05015

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 February 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 February 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will review the financial support available to self-catering establishments, bed and breakfasts and guest houses.

Question reference: S5F-04774

Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 01 February 2021
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 February 2021

Question to be taken in Chamber.