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 Scottish Government what it is doing and what funds it has allocated to make care a more attractive career choice for men and young people.
To ask the Scottish Government what financial support it provides to crofting communities in the Highlands and Islands that are affected by extreme weather, and what plans it has to introduce additional measures.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to reform the crofting (a) compensation arrangements and (b) hardship funds, and what its response is to reports suggesting that people find these insufficient.
To ask the Scottish Government what support is available through the justice system for the protection of children in families experiencing domestic abuse.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to complete major capacity and speed improvements to the Highland Main Line with electrification before 2030.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to complete major capacity and speed improvements to the Highland Main Line before 2025.
To ask the Scottish Government who has been awarded funding from the extra £20 million announced to help tackle violence against women.
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made on creating the four violence against women strategy working groups; when each of these groups has met; who chairs each group; who the members are; when they will report on progress, and when they will report their recommendations to the violence against women joint strategic board.
To ask the Scottish Government what changes it has made to the funding arrangements from 2016 for the (a) Equality Fund, (b) Violence Against Women and Girls Fund, (c) Children's Services Women's Aid Fund and (d) Rape Crisis Specific Fund.