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-03156
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 February 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how outcomes from the New Deal for Business will be measured.
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Question reference: S6W-25506
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 28 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on any further consideration that it has given to excluding home swapping from the short-term let licensing scheme.
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Question reference: S6W-25505
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 28 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on (a) the scope of its post-implementation review of short-term let licensing and (b) when it expects this review to be completed.
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Question reference: S6F-02863
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 February 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 February 2024
To ask the First Minister what action the Scottish Government is taking to prevent convicted sex offenders from changing their identity.
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Question reference: S6O-03066
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how its Budget for 2024-25 will support the delivery of local services in the Mid Scotland and Fife region.
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Question reference: S6O-03037
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the former Lord Advocate, Frank Mulholland, should make himself available to the Parliament to answer questions, in relation to matters for which he was responsible in his former role, in connection with Horizon information technology prosecutions in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6O-03007
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will update its guidance to local authorities on planning rules for short-term lets, in light of the recent ruling from the Court of Session that deemed the City of Edinburgh Council’s planning guidance for businesses on short-term lets to be unlawful.
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Question reference: S6W-23176
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Claire Baker (on behalf of the SPCB) on 5 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it will publish all correspondence between Michael Matheson and SPCB staff regarding his expenses claim for roaming charges in Morocco.
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Question reference: S6O-02756
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what policy changes it has implemented as a result of issues raised in the New Deal for Business Group Report on progress and recommendations.
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Question reference: S6O-02713
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the total cost of its Building a New Scotland series of papers, including the recently published Migration to Scotland after independence paper.
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