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MSP for South Scotland (Region) 2021 - present day
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19 January 2023 - 25 April 2023
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These are the official transcripts of what was said by this MSP in the chamber and at committee meetings. You'll find the topic discussed and how many times this MSP has contributed to the discussion.
Chamber meeting date: 11 June 2025
Carol Mochan (South Scotland) (Lab): "I am pleased to speak on an issue that concerns the very backbone of our NHS: its workforce. I begin by echoing other members’ points about the value of our NHS workforce…
Chamber meeting date: 10 June 2025
Carol Mochan (South Scotland) (Lab): "I will speak briefly to amendment 42. Jackie Baillie and the minister have worked very hard to include international workers in new section 53A of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014…
Chamber meeting date: 10 June 2025
Carol Mochan (South Scotland) (Lab): "When I joined the Parliament, back in 2021, there was genuine enthusiasm, following the Feeley review, about the prospect of a national care service. Only four years later, that enthusiasm has been depleted and we have a much-reduced bill…
Chamber meeting date: 3 June 2025
Carol Mochan (South Scotland) (Lab): "I, too, thank Rhoda Grant for bringing to the chamber an important debate that has not, in the Parliament, moved on as it might have done…
Health, Social Care and Sport Committee meeting date: 3 June 2025
Carol Mochan (South Scotland) (Lab): "The UK inquiry’s module 1 report emphasises the importance of surge capacity in the NHS and says that that was not planned for in the simulated exercises…
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Submitted by: Liz Smith, Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party. Date lodged: Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, June 12, 2025
Result 24 for, 84 against, 0 abstained, 21 did not vote
MSP voted against
Vote Defeated
Submitted by: Michael Marra, North East Scotland, Scottish Labour. Date lodged: Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, June 12, 2025
Result 19 for, 62 against, 27 abstained, 21 did not vote
MSP voted for
Vote Defeated
Submitted by: Kate Forbes, Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Supported by: Tom Arthur, Richard Lochhead, Paul McLennan, Shirley-Anne Somerville, Kaukab Stewart
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Thursday, June 12, 2025
Result 67 for, 42 against, 0 abstained, 20 did not vote
MSP voted against
Vote Passed
Submitted by: Jamie Hepburn, Cumbernauld and Kilsyth, Scottish National Party. Date lodged: Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Result 85 for, 32 against, 0 abstained, 12 did not vote
MSP voted for
Vote Passed
Submitted by: Jackie Baillie, Dumbarton, Scottish Labour. Date lodged: Monday, June 9, 2025
Supported by: Foysol Choudhury, Katy Clark
Current status: Taken in the Chamber on Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Result 91 for, 1 against, 21 abstained, 16 did not vote
MSP voted for
Vote Passed
Find out what motions Carol Mochan has submitted recently.
These are the questions that this MSP has asked in Parliament. It also includes any answer to those questions.
Asked by: Mochan, Carol, South Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date Lodged: 9 June 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government when it last asked the UK Government when the results of the UK National Screening Committee consultation on offering HPV self-sampling will be released."
Answer expected on 23 June 2025
Asked by: Mochan, Carol, South Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date Lodged: 9 June 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government whether it will commit to not placing any NHS board or hospital, which does not meet diagnostic and cancer waiting times, under a recruitment freeze."
Answer expected on 23 June 2025
Asked by: Mochan, Carol, South Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date Lodged: 9 June 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Royal College of Radiologists workforce census 2024, which shows that there has been 0…
Answer expected on 23 June 2025
Asked by: Mochan, Carol, South Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date Lodged: 9 June 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Royal College of Radiologists workforce census 2024, how it plans to reduce the number of clinical (a) radiologists and (b) oncologists leaving the workforce below the age of 50."
Answer expected on 23 June 2025
Asked by: Mochan, Carol, South Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date Lodged: 9 June 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government how it will support (a) NHS boards and (b) cancer alliances to develop local and regional long-term workforce plans to meet the radiology and oncology demands that they face."
Answer expected on 23 June 2025
Asked by: Mochan, Carol, South Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date Lodged: 9 June 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to encourage an increase in the uptake and provision of the number of specialty training places for radiology, in light of the figures from the Royal College of Radiologists recent workforce census showing that there is a 25% shortfall in the profession."
Answer expected on 23 June 2025
Asked by: Mochan, Carol, South Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date Lodged: 9 June 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting radiologists in Scotland, in light of the figures from the Royal College of Radiologists recent workforce census showing that there is a 25% shortfall in the profession."
Answer expected on 23 June 2025
Asked by: Mochan, Carol, South Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date Lodged: 9 June 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Royal College of Radiologists workforce survey 2024, how it plans to address the regional variation in the recruitment of radiology doctors in relation to diagnostic treatment and cancer services."
Answer expected on 23 June 2025
Asked by: Mochan, Carol, South Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date Lodged: 9 June 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to reduce the reported delays that patients are facing as a result of a shortage of doctors responsible for diagnostic and cancer care across Scotland."
Answer expected on 23 June 2025
Asked by: Mochan, Carol, South Scotland, Scottish Labour, Date Lodged: 9 June 2025
"To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of investing in more NHS-based clinical radiology and oncology specialty training places compared with the outsourcing of NHS contracts to the independent sector."
Answer expected on 23 June 2025