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-01490
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 October 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing to small businesses through the cost of living crisis.
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Question reference: S6W-11250
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 24 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has considered launching a public inquiry into the practice of unlawful organ and tissue retention at Scottish hospitals between 1970 and 2000.
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Question reference: S6W-11251
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 24 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that those responsible for the practice of unlawful organ and tissue retention at Scottish hospitals between 1970 and 2000 are held legally accountable.
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Question reference: S6W-11249
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 24 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to facilitate the reunion of families affected by the practice of unlawful organ and tissue retention at Scottish hospitals between 1970 and 2000 with their loved ones’ remains.
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Question reference: S6W-11483
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 21 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact of expanding the entitlement to free school meals, in light of a recent survey by the NASUWT The Teachers' Union, which found that 65% of its members had observed more pupils coming to school hungry.
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Question reference: S6W-11340
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 October 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 19 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what assurances it can give (a) local authorities and (b) the City of Edinburgh Council that capacity and financial pressures experienced as a result of supporting displaced people from Ukraine will be met by the Scottish Government.
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Question reference: S6W-11193
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 September 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 14 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the inter-community violence in Leicester in September 2022, whether its upcoming hate crime strategy will be alert to any potential use of social media in transmitting hatred across borders.
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Question reference: S6O-01397
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact of its announced £37.6 million reduction in the budget for concessionary travel.
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Question reference: S6W-10219
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of whether the Breastfeeding etc. (Scotland) Act 2005 has changed social attitudes towards breastfeeding.
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Question reference: S6W-10227
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider running a public health campaign to provide anyone at risk of infection from the monkeypox virus with accurate information and advice.
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