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
Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search. There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.
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Question reference: S6W-31819
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what safeguards exist for patients with suspected inflammatory bowel disease who remain on the endoscopy waiting list past its target of six weeks, and how it has assessed the effectiveness of any such safeguards.
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Question reference: S6W-31836
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has considered waiving or greatly reducing the cost of (a) marriage notices, (b) marriage certificates and (c) ceremony fees to make the legal process of getting married more equitable.
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Question reference: S6W-31727
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the discovery of hundreds of dead fish in Linlithgow Loch on 12 November 2024, what action SEPA has taken in response to this possible pollution event.
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Question reference: S6W-31817
- Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the (a) value of the role of physician associate, (b) function that physician associates have in supporting GPs and (c) contribution that physician associates make to patients and the NHS.
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Question reference: S6W-31827
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-04033 by Graeme Dey on 1 November 2021, how much grant funding it has provided to each local authority to purchase and/or lease zero emission vehicles in each year since 2021-22.
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Question reference: S6W-31824
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many appointments by ministers to positions on (a) public bodies and (b) NHS boards there have been in each year since 2007 in which the appointee has declared a political affiliation, broken down by political party declared.
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Question reference: S6W-31843
- Asked by: Martin Whitfield, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how many and (b) what percentage of schools have (i) reduced, (ii) increased and (iii) maintained the hours allocated to physical education in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S6W-31789
- Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what support it has provided to local authorities for the provision of school (a) libraries and (b) librarians in the current financial year, and in each year since 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-31840
- Asked by: Martin Whitfield, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of primary schools currently meet its target of providing at least two hours of quality physical education per week.
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Question reference: S6W-31833
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will review the 29-day waiting period by which couples must give notice to the registrar of where they plan to get married.
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