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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: S6F-02214

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 June 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 June 2023

To ask the First Minister when the Cabinet will next meet.

Question reference: S6F-02211

Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 05 June 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 June 2023

To ask the First Minister whether extra resources will be made available to local authorities for additional rangers to help with the reported upcoming tourist influx in rural Scotland.

Question reference: S6F-02205

Asked by: Karen Adam, MSP for Banffshire and Buchan Coast, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 05 June 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 June 2023

To ask the First Minister, in light of it being Carers Week, what the Scottish Government is doing to support carers across Scotland.

Question reference: S6F-02204

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 05 June 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 June 2023

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-02203

Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 05 June 2023
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 June 2023

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6W-18889

Asked by: Collette Stevenson, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Friday, 02 June 2023
Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 5 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its draft plan on ending the need for food banks.

The Scottish Government has today published Cash-First: Towards Ending the Need for Food Banks in Scotland. This sets out our human rights approach to tackling food insecurity and details nine actions that we will take in collaboration with partners over the next three years to improve the response to financial hardship and reduce the need for emergency food parcels.

Scotland is the first nation in the UK to have such a plan and the actions will help to identify measures that move us closer towards our longer term ambition of a Scotland without the need for food banks.

Question reference: S6W-18104

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2023
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 5 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what (a) assistance and (b) funding it is providing to the Scottish Perinatal Network to support its work in promoting the uptake and adoption of placental growth factor (PLGF)-based testing for pre-eclampsia across the NHS.

I refer the member to the answer to question S6W-18105 on 5 June 2023. The Scottish Government expects all NHS Boards in Scotland to take note of the Scottish Health Technologies Group (SHTG) recommendations, published on 23 March 2023, and take steps to ensure that any woman who requires access to placental growth factor (PlGF) based tests as part of her maternity care can do so. We wrote to NHS Boards on 23 March, immediately following publication of the SHTG guidance, and will write to NHS Boards again in June, to understand how implementation of PlGF testing is progressing.

NHS Boards are expected to work towards implementation of PlGF-based testing locally, as decisions on which of the four recommended PlGF-based tests to use will depend on local factors, including analyser availability, geography and cost. The SHTG guidance is clear in its economic evaluation that use of PlGF-based testing can drive cost savings as well as improving outcomes for women and their babies, particularly where a diagnosis of preterm pre-eclampsia is less clear.

All answers to written Parliamentary Questions are available on the Parliament's website, the search facility for which can be found at https://www.parliament.scot/chamber-and-committees/written-questions-and-answers

Question reference: S6W-18129

Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 19 May 2023
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 5 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the national child measurement programme in Scotland only measures the height and weight of children in P1, and not also in P7, as is routinely done in other parts of the UK.

In Scotland, as part of the wider child health programme , height and weight measurements have always been carried out in Primary 1 only. We are aware that this differs in other parts of the UK.

The purpose and key components of the Scottish programme are similar to that of the National Child Measurement Programme in England: to inform local planning and delivery of services for children; gather population-level data to allow analysis of trends in growth patterns and obesity; increase public and professional understanding of the importance of healthy weight in children and be a vehicle for engaging with children and families about health and weight.

We continue to keep under review whether an additional measure at an older age would be beneficial to improving children’s health.

Question reference: S6W-18222

Asked by: John Swinney, MSP for Perthshire North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 22 May 2023
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 5 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to enhance medical education in relation to myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) in medical schools.

Question reference: S6W-18021

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 25 May 2023
Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 5 June 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has established a Land Tax Working Group, and, if so, when the group will report.

The Scottish Government has not established a Land Tax Working Group and does not have plans to do so at present. The Medium Term Financial Strategy set out that the Deputy First Minister will establish and chair an external Tax Advisory Group this summer, building on our inclusive approach to tax policymaking. The outcomes of this engagement will feed into the Budget 2024-25 and the development of the Government’s longer-term tax strategy.