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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: S6W-29264

Asked by: Pam Gosal, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 4 September 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its plans to create a permanent national "fund to leave" for women experiencing domestic abuse.

The Scottish Government received the final evaluation of the fund to leave pilot from Scottish Women’s Aid in August. This has fed into a wider assessment of the pilot looking at how it delivered against its objectives; how it improved outcomes for women and/or prevented their homelessness; and what lessons were learned during the pilot. The assessment is nearing completion and we will then be in a position to set out next steps.

Question reference: S6W-29025

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 4 September 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the number of people who have supplied blood pressure readings through the Connect Me tool in each year since 2021, also broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S6W-29115

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Kaukab Stewart on 3 September 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made on establishing an advisory group of equalities experts to co-produce new regulations for the public sector equality duty, as committed to by the then Minister for Equalities, Migration and Refugees in response to a letter from 26 equalities organisations in April 2022.

Question reference: S6W-29142

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 16 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 3 September 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will set out a timescale for ensuring that all NHS clinical waste produced in Scotland is processed in Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-29144

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 16 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 3 September 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it can provide the estimated number of miles travelled per month, since January 2018, in the transport of NHS Scotland clinical waste by road to Wales.

Question reference: S6W-29145

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 16 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 3 September 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the estimated cost to NHS Scotland of transporting clinical waste by road to Wales.

Question reference: S6W-29147

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 16 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 3 September 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will encourage Tradebe to honour its reported pledge to process clinical waste in Scotland rather than transporting it to Wales.

Question reference: S6W-29146

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 16 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 3 September 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Malcolm Group is contracted to undertake the transportation of NHS Scotland clinical waste, and whether it will outline which other hauliers are also contracted to undertake such transportation.

Question reference: S6W-29143

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 16 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 3 September 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it can provide the estimated number of lorry journeys being made by Tradebe per month to transport NHS Scotland clinical waste to Wales.

Question reference: S6W-29111

Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 August 2024
Current Status: Answered by Kaukab Stewart on 3 September 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the review of the public sector equality duty, what progress has been made on the proposal to use regulation 11 of the Scottish specific duties to make more effective use of intersectional equality data in policy making and increasing consideration of equality data in policy making.