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: S5O-01206
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 August 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 September 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Fair Work Framework applies to NHS Lothian.
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Question reference: S5W-10597
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 August 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 30 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on non-departmental government bodies endorsing large-scale killings of mountain hares in situations where there is an absence of evidence that this practice is sustainable and an absence of animal welfare standards.
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Question reference: S5W-10600
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 August 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 30 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its policy is on large-scale recreational killing of mountain hares, in light of reports of one estate claiming to have shot up to 2,000 in the course of a season.
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Question reference: S5W-10663
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 August 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 30 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how it will report the findings of the social security experience panels.
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Question reference: S5W-10665
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 August 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 30 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5O-00981 by Angela Constance on 17 May 2017 (Official Report, c. 18), how the Scottish Social Security Agency will seek to maximise incomes.
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Question reference: S5W-10662
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 August 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 30 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to how the findings by Sheffield Hallam University, which suggest that £800 million in benefit reductions in the UK will fall on households with dependent children between 2015 and 2020, will impact on its strategy to reduce child poverty.
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Question reference: S5W-10599
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 August 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 28 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) financial support and (b) non-financial support such as endorsements and training it has given to the Scottish Country Sports Tourism Group, including through VisitScotland and Scottish Natural Heritage, in each of the last three years.
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Question reference: S5T-00624
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 June 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that inpatient paediatric services are permanently available at St John’s Hospital in Livingston.
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Question reference: S5W-09637
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 20 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many people in prison have dementia; what support is given to people with dementia in prison, and, in light of an ageing population, what plans it has for the provision of support to people with dementia in prison in the future.
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Question reference: S5W-09511
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 15 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what rationale it used in selecting its preferred option at stage 2 of the assessment for improvements to the Sheriffhall roundabout.