General Questions

Ruth Maguire 1. [Withdrawn] Martin Whitfield S6O-02887 2. To ask the Scottish Government how many GP surgeries are not currently accepting new patients. Pauline McNeill S6O-02888 3. To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the current options available to record the relationship status of a deceased person are sufficient for the purposes of this information being accurately represented on death certificates. Willie Coffey S6O-02889 4. To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its cladding remediation programme. Brian Whittle S6O-02890 5. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that rural populations have convenient and appropriate access to care homes. James Dornan S6O-02891 6. To ask the Scottish Government how the proposals outlined in its latest Building a New Scotland paper, Social Security in an independent Scotland , would support Scotland’s social security system. Douglas Lumsden S6O-02892 7. To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce waiting times for ambulances in north east Scotland. Colin Smyth S6O-02893 8. To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Public Health Scotland publication, Care home census for adults in Scotland , which showed that the number of care homes across the country has dropped by nearly a fifth in the past decade.