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-08376
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 18 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of what Historical Adoption Support Trauma Service is being developed.
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Question reference: S6W-08377
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 17 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when the Physical Intervention Working Group last met, and when the group will submit its recommendations to ministers.
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Question reference: S6W-08381
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 17 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what support it has provided to the Men’s Shed Movement in each year since the movement was established in 2013.
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Question reference: S6W-08382
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 17 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to help to expand the Men’s Shed Movement in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-08204
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 16 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what the kinship care allowance payment is in each local authority area.
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Question reference: S6W-08408
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 06 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 16 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S5W-34944 and S5W-35522 by Clare Haughey on 11 February and 8 March 2021 respectively, whether it will provide the same information for 2021-22.
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Question reference: S6W-05925
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 13 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking as part of the Sexual Health and Blood Borne Viruses (SHBBV) services Recovery Plan to ensure that adequate numbers of staff are available for finding and treating new cases of hepatitis C, and collecting and analysing data on levels of blood borne virus infection.
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Question reference: S6W-08199
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 12 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many babies with disabilities have been born in Scotland to mothers who used sodium valproate during pregnancy in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S6W-08206
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 11 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comments by the Minister for Public Finance, Planning and Community Wealth during the debate on National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4) on 19 April 2022, what the timeframe will be for the revised draft NPF4 and accompanying delivery programme.
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Question reference: S6W-08200
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 11 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many single parents have accessed further education in each year since 1999.
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