Questions and answers

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 ��˿�� 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

Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.

Find out more about parliamentary questions

Filter your results Hide all filters

Displaying 1050 questions Show Answers

Order by |

Question reference: S5F-02891

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 17 December 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 December 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5W-20382

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 December 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 12 December 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made with the development and implementation of the high vigilance restricted use protocol for mesh procedures.

Health Boards have nominated 'Accountable Officers' who, in each Health Board that carries out mesh procedures in the future, will be responsible for ensuring that the necessary high vigilance measures have been followed in every case.

In February Accountable Officers will meet with Scottish Government and NHS ISD officials, as well as members of Healthcare Improvement Scotland's Mesh Oversight Group, in order to progress the development of the protocol. In doing so, Accountable Officers will take account of NICE guidelines, Royal College of Surgeons training guidelines, the Mesh Oversight Group's newly developed Self-Assessment Tool, and the views of regional clinical groups, the latter having been asked to give careful consideration to the issue following the announcement of the halt in September 2018.

Question reference: S5W-20383

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 December 2018
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 12 December 2018

To ask the Scottish Government what further work it has undertaken with the Department of Health and Social Care, and the other devolved administrations, regarding the establishment of a mesh database.

Officials have continued to meet with colleagues in the Department of Health and Social Care as well as the other devolved administrations, the British Society of Urogynaecology, and the British Association of Urologiccal Surgeons in order to progress development of a registry.

An outline of an interim registry has been agreed upon and is expected to become operational in the spring of next year, and officials will be considering information governance aspects in order to ensure that NHSScotland can fully participate. A bespoke registry will continue to be developed after implemetation of the interim solution, with delivery expected in around two years.

Both the interim and bespoke registries will record all stress urinary incontinence and pelvic organ prolapse procedures, not just those that involve mesh repair. Further, they will record patient reported outcomes in addition to clinician reports.

Question reference: S5F-02867

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 10 December 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 December 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-02847

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 03 December 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 December 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-02822

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 26 November 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 November 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-02793

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 November 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-02770

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 12 November 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 November 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-02743

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 05 November 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 November 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5W-19292

Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 08 October 2018
Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 2 November 2018

To ask the Scottish Government how Registers of Scotland ensures that alterations to the Register, resulting in a discrepancy between the occupied and legal extent of a property, are effectively communicated to affected homeowners.

This is a question for the Keeper of the Registers of Scotland. She advises me that when the registration process is complete a notification is sent to the applicant, most often via their solicitor, which includes a copy of the land register title sheet and plan showing the legal boundaries of the properties as registered. Typically any discrepancy between occupational and legal extent would have been resolved before registration but this stage in the process provides an opportunity to check the position again.

Where the Ordnance Survey basemap is updated following resurvey the Keeper will make consequential changes to the Land Register map where they are minor in nature (ie within the tolerance of the basemap). The Keeper does not notify homeowners in these circumstances as the changes are not material. Where the changes to the Ordnance Survey basemap are more significant, the Keeper does not update the mapping of the land registered title. Instead she maintains the legal extent of the title but updates the land register to show the new Ordnance Survey map. The homeowner is not notified as no change is being made to their legal title.

The Keeper will only alter the legal extent of a registered title when an inaccuracy is discovered in the mapping of the title. In those instances, the homeowners will be notified in writing, again most often via their solicitor.