Questions and answers
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-00478
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 22 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether there has been in increase in cases of children being hospitalised as a result of COVID-19 in the six months up to June 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-00453
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 22 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on prescriptions in each of the last five years, and how many people received a prescription.
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Question reference: S6W-00455
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 22 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what medicines are excluded from free prescriptions.
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Question reference: S6W-00477
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 22 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what recent research or assessment it (a) has carried out and (b) is aware of regarding the health risk to children from COVID-19, including from variant strains.
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Question reference: S6W-00479
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 22 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether its assessment of the risk to children’s health from COVID-19 is being revised, and on what basis.
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Question reference: S6W-00474
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 22 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many young people aged (a) under 12, (b) 12 to 15 and (c) 16 to 17 have been in hospital with COVID-19 each week in 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-00476
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 22 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what reassurances it can provide to parents and carers regarding the risk of COVID-19 to young children, in light of comments by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care during a radio interview on 2 June 2021 that travelling from a Level 2 area to a Level 1 area to visit a soft play centre “could lead to hospitalisation of children”.
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Question reference: S6W-00839
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 22 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has allocated in (a) the South Scotland parliamentary region and (b) each local authority area for the purchase of scientific equipment for schools in each year since 2012-13.
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Question reference: S6W-00712
- Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 22 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much financial support it has provided to taxi drivers since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Question reference: S6W-00711
- Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 22 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many taxi drivers are eligible for the full £1,500 that is available through the Taxi and Private Hire Driver and Operator Support Fund.