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-09101
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 29 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it takes to ensure that hardcopy paper responses to Scotland's Census 2022 are recorded accurately and that errors in recording can be corrected.
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Question reference: S6W-09126
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 29 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding each (a) local authority and (b) National Park will receive from its Edinburgh Process Fund.
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Question reference: S6W-09214
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 28 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what work it will undertake to improve data collection on people with (a) bronchiectasis and (b) other lung diseases.
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Question reference: S6W-09212
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 28 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what recent assessment it has made of the impact of (a) alcohol misuse and (b) obesity on liver disease mortality rates.
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Question reference: S6W-09498
- Asked by: Emma Harper, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 June 2022
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Maree Todd on 28 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when it will review the level of minimum unit pricing of alcohol.
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Question reference: S6W-09194
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 28 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce deaths from liver disease in areas of social deprivation.
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Question reference: S6W-09209
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 28 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to increase the use of FibroScan and enhanced liver fibrosis (ELF) tests in primary care in order to improve the early diagnosis of liver disease.
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Question reference: S6T-00828
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 June 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reports that the Scottish Solicitors’ Bar Association say that the impasse on legal aid payments has meant that the entire criminal justice system is in “imminent danger of collapse”.
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Question reference: S6F-01309
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 June 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 June 2022
To ask the First Minister what progress the Scottish Government is making towards introducing an effective national system of rent controls by the end of 2025 as set out in its strategy, A New Deal for Tenants.
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Question reference: S6W-09206
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 27 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will ensure that (a) improved surveillance, testing and carcass collection is set up and (b) disturbance minimisation and biosecurity measures are put in place in preparation for the current and future outbreaks of HPAI (highly pathogenic avian influenza) in wild birds.
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