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: S5O-02989
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 March 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when it last held discussions with the Prime Minister.
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Question reference: S5O-02910
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it will give to revising the Open Market Shared Equity Scheme thresholds in order to address varying house prices within local authority areas.
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Question reference: S5O-02819
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 January 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the UK Government scrapping the EU settled status fee.
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Question reference: S5O-02778
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 16 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how it can support deer managers to supply venison to local people.
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Question reference: S5O-02743
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 9 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how the proposals in its draft Budget aim to help support the work of credit unions.
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Question reference: S5O-02700
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 December 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how it has evaluated the pilot in schools of its Equally Safe programme.
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Question reference: S5W-20045
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 29 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-19771 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 19 November 2018, whether it has raised specific concerns with the DWP and Social Security Advisory Committee about the changes made in the update of the guidance in version 14, issued by the DWP on 16 August 2018, which means that implicit consent continues to apply to MPs but not to MSPs, with previous guidance stating that implicit consent applied to both.
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Question reference: S5O-02623
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 November 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what involvement it currently has with the UK Government’s Migration Advisory Committee in relation to advice on migration policy post-Brexit.
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Question reference: S5O-02576
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made in identifying sites to replace HMP Barlinnie.
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Question reference: S5W-19771
- Asked by: Linda Fabiani, MSP for East Kilbride, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 19 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has introduced new rules for MSPs representing their constituents in Universal Credit cases, and what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding this.