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 how many finalised settlement agreements it has been notified of since the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Wellbeing's new procedures were set out in the Scottish Public Finance Manual in October 2013 and what costs were involved.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to prohibit the sale of e-cigarettes to under-18s.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to amend the Smoking, Health and Social Care (Scotland) Act 2005 to cover e-cigarettes.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to support victims of defective polypropylene mesh medical devices.
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to notify patients with polypropylene mesh medical devices of any potential risk to health.
To ask the Scottish Government what labour market factors are different between Sweden and Scotland apart from childcare and whether these factors could impact on Scotland achieving a similar rate of female participation.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the analysis of the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) that the third phase of the childcare proposals as outlined in the white paper on independence would cost £1.2 billion.
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has made of the possibility of women already in the labour market increasing their hours of work rather than an overall increase in labour market participation as a result of its proposals for childcare in an independent Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government what the cost would be of the third phase of its childcare proposals as outlined in its white paper on independence.
To ask the Scottish Government how many fire-related fatalities there have been in residential premises in each year since 1999.