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: S6O-00335
- Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 4 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it has had with the University of Dundee about Unite the Union's industrial action over its position that proposed pension changes will disproportionately affect workers on lower pay grades.
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Question reference: S6O-00350
- Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 November 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on progress with the support available for cooperatives for the transition to a new economy.
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Question reference: S6O-00272
- Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 October 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how its policies and actions across government will take account of the key findings and recommendations of the Royal Society of Edinburgh's Post-Covid-19 Futures Commission published earlier this week.
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Question reference: S6W-03324
- Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 14 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the commitment made by the Cabinet Secretary for Social Security and Older People on 19 May 2020 regarding the provision of additional support to young carers.
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Question reference: S6W-03358
- Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 13 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it reviewed the human rights implications of Police Scotland's work in Sri Lanka, and whether it will publish the paper that was presented at a meeting of Police Scotland’s International Development Board on 19 May 2021 regarding its work with the police force in Sri Lanka, which led to a decision at that meeting to pause the programme.
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Question reference: S6O-00263
- Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 September 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the Swedish national system of collective rent bargaining through a national union of tenants would help to address any housing issues in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-03227
- Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what mechanisms, other than local authority byelaws, it would consider appropriate to create protest-free buffer zones outside clinics that provide abortion services.
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Question reference: S6W-03004
- Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 27 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of any public funding for which it has responsibility that has supported companies that develop, manufacture or market in the arms trade in each of the last five years, also broken down by which companies received funding.
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Question reference: S6O-00219
- Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 September 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on Afghan refugee relocation and resettlement with reference to the different elements of the New Scots Strategy.
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Question reference: S6F-00220
- Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 06 September 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 September 2021
To ask the First Minister what discussions the Scottish Government has had with ScotRail and the trade unions regarding industrial action on the network.
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