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Chamber and committees

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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 29 October 2025
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Question reference: S5W-28739

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 27 April 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how many deaths from (a) confirmed and (b) suspected COVID-19 there have been in care homes that had a Care Inspectorate report score of (i) adequate and (ii) weak, and how this compares with the total number of deaths.

Question reference: S5W-29528

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 01 June 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how many older people’s care homes in the voluntary sector are owned by the same body, broken down by (a) body and (b) number of homes owned.

Question reference: S5W-29527

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 01 June 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how many older people’s care homes in the private sector are owned by the same company, broken down by (a) company and (b) number of homes owned.

Question reference: S5W-29526

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 01 June 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government, as of 1 June 2020, how many older people’s care homes are in the (a) private, (b) public and (c) voluntary sector.

Question reference: S5W-29530

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 01 June 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of 921 older people reportedly being discharged from hospital at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, which care homes they were discharged to and what the cost was, both broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S5W-29645

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 05 June 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 17 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to questions S5W-29285 and S5W-29287 by Ben Macpherson on 3 June 2020, in light of it not holding this information about the business support grants scheme centrally, how it can assess effectively the (a) level of support that has been delivered to each industry sector and subsequent properties and (b) effectiveness of the scheme and whether there are any gaps in support.

Question reference: S5W-29352

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will use mobile COVID-19 testing units in every local authority area to help increase the volume of testing.

Question reference: S5W-29353

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has considered following the approach in Wuhan, China, which is to test the entire population for COVID-19.

Question reference: S5W-29547

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 01 June 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 15 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of what the impact will be on portfolios that have seen a total of £255.2 million redeployed within the Scottish Budget Summer Revision in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.

Question reference: S5W-29544

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 01 June 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 11 June 2020

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the New Lanark Trust with emergency funding to cope with its loss of income due to the COVID-19 outbreak and in order to avoid its potential closure.