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-09419
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to act on new research published by Epilepsy Scotland, which highlights reported significant caseloads of more than 1,000 patients for many Epilepsy Specialist Nurses across Scotland and a 15% reduction in such nurses since 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-09370
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 13 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its Budget underspend has been in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S6W-09406
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 12 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what the recruitment target is for mental health workers in primary care settings specifically.
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Question reference: S6W-09776
- Asked by: Emma Harper, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 July 2022
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Kevin Stewart on 12 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when the final recruitment figures under Action 15 of the Mental Health Strategy 2017-2027, which ended in March 2022, will be published.
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Question reference: S6W-09293
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 12 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will include a target for 10% of all new-build housing developments to be wheelchair accessible as part of the fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4).
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Question reference: S6W-09348
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 12 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what the reasons were for its decision that school children in Scotland would not automatically receive the commemorative book for Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee.
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Question reference: S6W-09270
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 12 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to the NESTA report, Estimating the willingness to pay for a heat pump, in determining the level of financial support that it will provide to householders, and the contribution of heat pumps, to meet its target for the rate of zero carbon heating system installations in new and existing homes and buildings to double every year from the current baseline to at least 64,000 installations in 2025.
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Question reference: S6W-09230
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 11 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) initial and (b) full human rights due diligence checks it has conducted since it published its Guidance on due diligence: human rights.
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Question reference: S6W-09765
- Asked by: Fulton MacGregor, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 July 2022
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Neil Gray on 11 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its Super Sponsor scheme for displaced people from Ukraine.
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Question reference: S6W-09263
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 8 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether the estimated £33 billion required to decarbonise heating in Scotland’s homes, as set out in the Heat in Buildings Strategy, is still currently an accurate assessment of the cost, and, if not, what the revised estimate is.