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-04020
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 9 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to enable disabled people to feed into its plans for achieving a fairer Scotland for disabled people, as set out in its Covid Recovery Strategy.
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Question reference: S6W-03942
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Dorothy Bain on 9 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the findings in the report, Nothing to See Here?, regarding the suggestion that, since the 2016 change in law regarding fatal accident inquiries, the average length of time for completion of such an inquiry has increased by 100 days.
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Question reference: S6W-03954
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 9 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many electric vehicle charging units have been installed in each of the last five years in places where commercial operators had not started to invest, also broken down by local authority area.
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Question reference: S6W-03544
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 8 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government on what date Test and Protect stopped actively informing schools of a positive COVID-19 PCR test for one of their pupils.
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Question reference: S6W-03613
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 8 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much of the funding announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in his statement to the Parliament on 5 October 2021, Health and Social Care (Winter Planning), is recurring.
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Question reference: S6W-03748
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 8 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the introduction of a digital sales tax.
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Question reference: S6W-03615
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 8 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when it expects the multi-disciplinary teams, announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in his statement to the Parliament on 5 October 2021, Health and Social Care (Winter Planning), to be in place.
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Question reference: S6W-03857
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 8 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the UK Government's Heat and Buildings Strategy aiming to ensure that heat pumps cost the same as fossil fuel boilers by 2030, whether it plans to set out a similar ambition and route to achievement of equalisation of cost by 2030, and, if so, when it will do so.
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Question reference: S6W-03808
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 8 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that officials from the Clinical Priorities Unit told chronic pain patients that gestures such as tutting or eye rolling at a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Chronic Pain could lead to dismissal as a volunteer patient representative and that such behaviour would be reported to ministers to obtain a decision on their continued membership of the committee.
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Question reference: S6W-03614
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 8 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to the funding announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care in his statement to the Parliament on 5 October 2021, Health and Social Care (Winter Planning), whether it includes new funding, and, if so, how much, and what its source is.
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