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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government whether the use of (a) personal and (b) officially-issued mobile phones (i) with and (ii) without encrypted apps and private mobile phones by (A) its staff, (B) special advisers and (C) ministers is covered by Freedom of Information requests.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on Lord Pentland agreeing with its lawyers that statements from ministers referring to an "effective ban" were "mistaken and did not accurately reflect the legal position".
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has introduced a legal ban on fracking.
To ask the Scottish Government to what extent undercover police officers have carried out surveillance of (a) social justice groups, (b) environmental groups and (c) trade unions in Scotland in each year since 1999, broken down by (i) how many and (ii) which organisations have been subject to this, and what information it has for the period, 1978 to 1998.
To ask the Scottish Government what meetings the Minister for Transport and the Islands has had with Stagecoach in 2018 and what was discussed.
To ask the Scottish Government what advice it provides to the public as a result of bus service changes that may negatively impact on them.
To ask the Scottish Government what rights users have to prevent bus route and timetable changes.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to engage with and empower communities in West Lothian.
To ask the Scottish Government what lessons it has learned in relation to any anticipated impact in Scotland of the UK Government's decision to take services on the East Coast Main Line into public control.
To ask the Scottish Government what research it has undertaken to understand how grooming takes place.