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-07813
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 3 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what compensation is available to farmers in relation to damage caused by beavers to farmland and any impact on their livelihoods.
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Question reference: S6W-07996
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 3 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support the (a) growth and (b) retention of medical research spin-out companies in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-08110
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 3 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether people with undiagnosed autism are at increased risk of suicide, and, if it considers this to be the case, what action it is taking to reverse this.
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Question reference: S6W-07975
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 3 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to tackle health inequalities, and whether it has an overarching strategy to address both health inequalities and their underlying causes.
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Question reference: S6W-07798
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 3 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the delivery of community access to allotments through the Community Wealth Building strategy.
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Question reference: S6W-08111
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 3 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether there are staff shortages in the mental health workforce, and, if so, how these shortages will be addressed.
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Question reference: S6W-08065
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 29 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made towards establishing a Youth National Performing Company, and when it anticipates that this will be in place.
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Question reference: S6W-07831
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 29 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-07108 by Lorna Slater on 22 March 2022, whether, at the time that the answer was provided, it had been advised by Circularity Scotland that the estimated number of reverse vending machines (RVMs) to be used for its Deposit Return Scheme would be around 5,000 rather 3,021, and, if so, for what reason this information was not disclosed in that answer.
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Question reference: S6W-07971
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to change the guidance regarding infection control measures that aim to prevent the spread of COVID-19 in hospitals.
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Question reference: S6W-08097
- Asked by: Sue Webber, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 29 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has met its target to embed, within every Drug and Alcohol Partnership, the 10 Medication-Assisted Treatment (MAT) standards by April 2022.
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