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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-00662

Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 10 January 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 January 2022

To ask the First Minister what support the Scottish Government can provide to people struggling to pay their energy bills.

Question reference: S6F-00665

Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 10 January 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 January 2022

To ask the First Minister what data the Scottish Government has collected on the number of people diagnosed with cancer, and the stage at which they were diagnosed, since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, and how this compares with pre-pandemic data.

Question reference: S6F-00650

Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 10 January 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 January 2022

To ask the First Minister what steps the Scottish Government will take to urgently progress the green transition in North Ayrshire, following the closure of Hunterston B power station on 7 January.

Question reference: S6F-00639

Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 10 January 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 January 2022

To ask the First Minister what deadline the Scottish Government has set for making any further changes to this year's SQA examinations process.

Question reference: S6F-00636

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 10 January 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 January 2022

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-00635

Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 10 January 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 January 2022

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6W-05283

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 December 2021
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 10 January 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made in introducing a "red bag" scheme for patients to keep their belongings, medications, and information safe when in hospital, and which NHS boards are currently delivering the scheme.

Question reference: S6W-05150

Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 December 2021
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 10 January 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to implement in full the recommendations in the report, Climate Change 2021: The Physical Science Basis, prepared by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and, if so, what steps it will take to do so.

The latest report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change shows the very real threat and heightened risk the climate emergency poses to the planet - but it also makes it clear that with immediate, concerted international action to reduce emissions, global temperature rise can still be limited to 1.5°C in the longer term.

Scotland is leading the way. We will end our contribution to climate change by 2045 at the latest, reducing emissions by 75% by 2030 along the way – a world-leading target. In December 2020 we updated our Climate Change Plan which sets out how we will deliver on this ambition and published Scotland’s indicative Nationally Determined Contribution in July 2021 outlining the actions we are taking to help meet the goals of the Paris Agreement. The global evidence provided by IPCC reports, as well as the independent expert scientific advice provided by the Climate Change Committee on what this evidence means for Scotland, will be part of the evidence base that informs development of Scotland’s next Climate Change Plan and Climate Change Adaptation Programme.

Question reference: S6W-05212

Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 December 2021
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 10 January 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how frequently NHS patients should have an dental check-up.

Question reference: S6W-05286

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 20 December 2021
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 10 January 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time for people to access chronic pain services has been in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.

Waiting time statistics on the waits experienced by patients for first appointments with chronic pain services can be found on the PHS website at the following link: https://publichealthscotland.scot/publications/chronic-pain-waiting-times . Data is available from the quarter ending 31st December 2015 to the quarter ending 30th September 2021.

A set of data tables for the most recent publication, which was released on 14th December 2021, can be found at the link above underneath the sub-heading of ‘Data files’. Table 3 in this file shows the distribution of wait for patients who have been seen for a first appointment with data displayed in 3 week time bands from 0 – 3 weeks up to 52+ weeks. Data for each time band is available as the number of patients and the percentage of patients who experienced that length of wait.

The statistics published in the tables above are based on aggregate data submissions obtained from the 14 NHS Boards. Waiting times experienced by patients are reported as the number and percentage of patients in each time band. An average (mean) waiting time is not calculated.