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.
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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To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government considers that the Scottish economy is over-reliant on the oil industry.
To ask the First Minister what impact fungal diseases will have on trees in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to change the guidelines on breast screening for 50 to 70-year-olds.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to expedite the building of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route following the Supreme Court’s rejection of the appeal.
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to tackle domestic abuse.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many Scottish Baccalaureate courses have been taken by school students in each local authority since 2009, broken down by subject.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) nurses and (b) consultants specialising in paediatric congenital heart disease are employed by each NHS board.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many babies have been treated for congenital heart disease in each NHS board in each of the last five years.
To ask the Scottish Executive whether legal action has been taken since 2007 against bus companies that are believed to have recorded inaccurate figures regarding the distances travelled by passengers using the concessionary travel scheme.
To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to monitor the accuracy of the information recorded by bus companies regarding the distances travelled by passengers using the concessionary travel scheme.