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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

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 3 July 2024
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Question reference: S6O-01774

  • Asked by: Marie McNair, MSP for Clydebank and Milngavie, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2023
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 January 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of a new report by the Resolution Foundation stating that the average household will be £2,100 worse off by the end of next financial year, how ministers across government are working to prioritise support for low-income households, as set out in its Covid Recovery Strategy.

Question reference: S6F-01660

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 19 December 2022
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 December 2022

To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government will set a clear ambition in its planned Energy Strategy for delivery of 4 to 6 GW of solar power by 2030. 

Question reference: S6O-01679

  • Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 December 2022
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 December 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of how any additional cost of living pressures will impact on the rebuilding of public services, as set out in its Covid Recovery Strategy, in particular public services in Edinburgh.

Question reference: S6O-01602

  • Asked by: Natalie Don, MSP for Renfrewshire North and West, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 November 2022
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how measures set out in the NHS Recovery Plan will support innovation and capacity in diagnostics for thrombosis.

Question reference: S6O-01550

  • Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2022
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government when it will implement the licensing scheme set out in the Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Act 2022.

Question reference: S6O-01381

  • Asked by: Jim Fairlie, MSP for Perthshire South and Kinross-shire, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2022
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how measures set out in its Programme for Government 2022-23 will support Scotland’s COVID-19 recovery.

Question reference: S6F-01315

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 05 September 2022
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 September 2022

To ask the First Minister, in light of the loss of life as a result of road traffic incidents on the A9 over the summer, on sections of the road that have not been dualled, what plans the Scottish Government has to publish a timetable setting out when the dualling of the A9, and A96, will be delivered.

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”.

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.

Question reference: S6O-01299

  • Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 June 2022
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 June 2022

To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to set a national generation target for solar energy as it has for wind and hydrogen.