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: S6W-16685
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 2 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any plans to roll out domestic abuse courts across Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-16684
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 2 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has been provided with any evaluation reports of the specialist domestic abuse courts in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and, if so, whether it will publish these.
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Question reference: S6W-16683
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 2 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has evaluated the outcomes of the specialist domestic abuse courts in Glasgow and Edinburgh, and, if not, whether it has any plans to do so.
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Question reference: S6W-16692
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Natalie Don on 27 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made in developing plans to deliver free breakfasts for all (a) primary and (b) special school children.
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Question reference: S6O-02166
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 April 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking in response to the recommendations of the independent review into women in entrepreneurship in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6O-02141
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 April 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with the Scottish Law Commission regarding its review of the law on homicide, in relation to culpable homicide.
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Question reference: S6W-16693
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 19 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its commitment to increase the national school clothing grant by inflation each year as part of its Covid Recovery Strategy, what the current grant levels are for eligible (a) primary and (b) secondary pupils; when the most recent increase took place, and when the next increase is due to take place.
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Question reference: S6W-16046
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 11 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many Drug Treatment and Testing Orders have been imposed on people in each local authority area in each year since 2011-12.
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Question reference: S6W-15980
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 27 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what research it has undertaken into the use of data centres as “digital boilers”.
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Question reference: S6W-15979
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 27 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting leisure centres and swimming pools with any increased energy bills.
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