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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 ��˿�� 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: S5W-24652

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-01841 by Shona Robison on 5 September 2016, which states that completion of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People was expected in 2017, what other dates it has previously given for its opening.

Question reference: S5W-24639

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what the (a) drainage and (b) water issues at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People involve; what percentage of the site’s footprint is affected, and how accessible the areas that require remedial work are.

Question reference: S5W-24667

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what learning it has shared with other bodies in the course of building the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, Department of Clinical Neurosciences and Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in Edinburgh; what this related to, and who it was shared with.

Question reference: S5W-24646

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what risk analysis has been undertaken regarding the time of year for the opening of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People and transfer from the Royal Hospital for Sick Children, including how this will be impacted by weather, the number of daylight hours, the number of procedures planned and overall sickness levels, and whether it will place a copy of this analysis in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe).

Question reference: S5W-24650

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government on what date the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport was first informed of the problems that subsequently led to her postponing the opening of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People.

Question reference: S5W-24642

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether the current ventilation issues at the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People are different to those that caused NHS Lothian to reportedly threaten in April 2018 to take legal action against Integrated Health Solutions Lothian, and how that dispute was resolved.

Question reference: S5W-24651

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government who is on the project board of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, and whether it will place in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) the (a) minutes of the board's meetings and (b) feedback provided to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport by the Scottish Government representatives on the board.

Question reference: S5W-24785

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Thursday, 15 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the paper that was published in the Scottish Medical Journal on 7 January 2015, “Acupuncture-induced pneumothorax: the hidden complication”, for what reason each NHS board has stated in response to an FOI request regarding figures from 2016 that they do not record acupuncture as a cause of pneumothorax (collapsed lung) as they do not hold a specific code for such treatment.

Question reference: S5W-24659

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government when the Royal Hospital for Sick Children was due to be handed to developers; what flexibility there is in this arrangement, and whether NHS Lothian will incur any penalties for a late handover.

Question reference: S5W-24663

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 09 August 2019
Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports in The Herald on 6 August 2019, whether its representatives on the project board of the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People were aware of the minutes of a meeting of NHS Lothian’s Finance and Resources Committee in September 2018, which refer to “residual technical issues” impacting on the project “with the key issue being around drainage systems”, and on what date these issues were communicated to the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport.