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-17943
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 12 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 25 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what evidence it used in relation to its decision not to reinstate shared cabins on the Aberdeen-Kirkwall-Lerwick NorthLink ferry route following the lifting of all of its COVID-19 restrictions and the statement by the World Health Organization that COVID-19 is no longer a global health emergency.
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Question reference: S6W-17622
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 19 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many children leave secondary school without having received swimming lessons in the previous two years of their learning.
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Question reference: S6W-17647
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 05 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 18 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S6W-12519 and S6W12628 by Ivan McKee on 5 December 2022, as part of its role in ensuring that submarine cables are protected and in engaging with affected stakeholders, what assessment it has made of the reported claim that the major communications outage in Shetland on 20 October 2022 may have been deliberately caused by a Russian vessel, rather than being the result of accidental damage by a UK registered fishing vessel.
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Question reference: S6W-17620
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to making the provision of swimming lessons to children a statutory requirement.
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Question reference: S6W-17621
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on how many children over the past five years have received swimming lessons through physical education classes at school.
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Question reference: S6W-17619
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what water safety teaching it requires of schools in coastal and island areas.
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Question reference: S6W-17623
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 15 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what support it plans to offer schools in order to provide swimming lessons.
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Question reference: S6W-17133
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 11 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what assistance it can provide to local authorities to accelerate any construction of pavement infrastructure.
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Question reference: S6W-17135
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 9 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what financial support it (a) is providing in 2023-24 and (b) will provide in each of the next five years, to local authorities for active travel.
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Question reference: S6W-17134
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 5 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing to (a) rural and (b) island areas to support active travel.
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