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: S5W-13793
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 23 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many instances of stop skipping occurred on ScotRail services in 2017.
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Question reference: S5W-13794
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 23 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many ScotRail services were (a) cancelled and (b) delayed in 2017.
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Question reference: S5W-13801
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 23 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made toward improved rail journey times of between 2 hours 45 minutes and 3 hours between Edinburgh and Inverness.
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Question reference: S5W-13817
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 12 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 23 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what contingency arrangements are in place to recover broken-down freight locomotives.
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Question reference: S5W-13797
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 18 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many ScotRail services that ordinarily would have had a refreshment trolley service operated without one in 2017.
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Question reference: S5W-13792
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 18 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many ScotRail services operated without a guard on board in 2017.
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Question reference: S5W-13796
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 18 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many ScotRail services operated without toilet facilities being available in 2017.
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Question reference: S5W-13520
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 16 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when the Cabinet Secretary for the Economy, Jobs and Fair Work last reviewed the risk register for (a) Highlands and Islands and (b) Scottish Enterprise, and what the findings were.
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Question reference: S5W-13355
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 10 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its letter to the member of 4 December 2017, when it expects Police Scotland to finish developing the "weeding and retention policy" for the Police Scotland Vulnerable Persons Database.
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Question reference: S5W-11643
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 10 January 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what funding (a) it and (b) each of its enterprise agencies has provided to organisations involved in promoting peace and non-violence in each of the last five years.