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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)
Other questions such as Topical, Portfolio, General and First Minister's Question Times are taken in the Chamber

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Question reference: S5W-24665

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the £80 million of enabling and equipment works at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Edinburgh; who payments will be made to; whether the Scottish Government approved this and, if so, on what date, and who it informed of this.

Question reference: S5W-24648

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what services at the Royal Hospital for Sick Children have already ceased or closed in anticipation of the move to the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, and on what dates.

Question reference: S5W-24645

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, prior to the opening being postponed in July 2019, how many patients were scheduled to have appointments at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, broken down by month.

Question reference: S5W-24638

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government on what date the drainage issue at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People was first reported to (a) it and (b) the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport, and on what date it was advised by “those involved in addressing the issue and the board” that the problem had been resolved, as stated by the health secretary on Good Morning Scotland on 5 August 2019.

Question reference: S5W-24644

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the BBC report, Union warns Edinburgh’s £150m hospital may never open, whether it has assessed the risk that the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People may have to be “ripped down” and what (a) percentage chance and (b) risk category this has been given.

Question reference: S5W-24651

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government who is on the project board of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, and whether it will place in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) the (a) minutes of the board's meetings and (b) feedback provided to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport by the Scottish Government representatives on the board.

Question reference: S5W-24650

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government on what date the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport was first informed of the problems that subsequently led to her postponing the opening of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People.

Question reference: S5W-24642

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether the current ventilation issues at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People are different to those that caused NHS Lothian to reportedly threaten in April 2018 to take legal action against Integrated Health Solutions Lothian, and how that dispute was resolved.

Question reference: S5W-24785

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the paper that was published in the Scottish Medical Journal on 7 January 2015, “Acupuncture-induced pneumothorax: the hidden complication”, for what reason each NHS board has stated in response to an FOI request regarding figures from 2016 that they do not record acupuncture as a cause of pneumothorax (collapsed lung) as they do not hold a specific code for such treatment.

Question reference: S5W-24660

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of it being considered unsafe to open, for what reason NHS Lothian is reportedly paying approximately £1.4 million per month for the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People; whether the (a) Scottish Government and (b) Scottish Futures Trust (i) advised on or had sight of the agreement and (ii) sought to remove or limit the impact of the contractual obligations that led to this situation, and whether it will place all documentation associated with this arrangement in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe).