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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-00957

Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 March 2022

To ask the First Minister what changes the recent shifts in fossil fuel prices and the need for energy security have made to the Scottish Government's plans for decarbonisation.

Question reference: S6F-00954

Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 March 2022

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-00955

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 March 2022

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6T-00630

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 28 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that decisions about the procurement of vessels 801 and 802 were rushed "for political purposes".

Question reference: S6T-00628

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 28 March 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what urgent action it will undertake to resolve waiting time delays in A&E following recent reported estimates from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine that the delays have contributed to 240 avoidable deaths this year.

Question reference: S6W-07329

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 28 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether any Hikvision cameras have been installed in any Scottish Government building since the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee report Never Again: The UK's Responsibility to Act on Atrocities in Xinjiang and Beyond was published in July 2021, which recommended that equipment manufactured by Hikvision should not be permitted to operate within the UK.

Question reference: S6W-07325

Asked by: Emma Roddick, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 28 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on any costs associated with mitigating any impact in Scotland of decisions taken by the UK Government in each of the last five financial years.

The estimated costs of "reserved" areas of spend that are being mitigated/supplemented by the Scottish Government are shown in the following table:-

Programme	2017-18	2018-19	2019-20	2020-21	2021-22
	£m	£m	£m	£m	£m
Discretionary Housing Payments	47.0	50.1	52.2	73.8	83.1
Promoting Equality and Human Rights	20.3	22.7	24.6	30.2	32.2
Scottish Child Payment				21.0	68.0
Broadband	117.1	22.2	32.9	63.4	102.8
Employability- Fair Start Scotland		14.9	16.4	21.6	27.3
Employability and Workforce Skills			17.2	51.1	22.1
Scottish Veterans' Commissioner			0.3	0.3	0.3
Veterans			0.2	0.5	1.5

Source: Level 4 budgets published alongside the annual Budget Bill.

Question reference: S6W-07324

Asked by: Stephanie Callaghan, MSP for Uddingston and Bellshill, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 28 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what the latest known levels of tuition fees are for a first full-time degree in Scotland, and what information it has on how this compares with (a) England and (b) Wales.

Question reference: S6W-07156

Asked by: Fulton MacGregor, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on current considerations regarding advice to NHS boards on the routine use of sapropterin in NHS Scotland.

The first generic version of sapropterin has recently received a Marketing Authorisation from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA). Healthcare Improvement Scotland are working to provide updated advice to Boards to enable routine prescribing of Sapropterin. We expect this to be in place in April. In the meantime, doctors can request access to medicines that are not generally available on the NHS on an individual case-by-case basis through local health board medicine governance processes.

Question reference: S6W-07151

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 28 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how it guarantees that the approximately £2 million of funding received by NHS National Services Scotland national procurement from stoma care product suppliers in 2020 is used solely for stoma care specialist nursing services within NHS boards across Scotland, as per agreement NP642/13 (Stoma Community: Tariff Formulary).