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-15895
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will list the dates of any meetings it has had with members of its Capital Investment Group at which the Monklands Replacement Project was discussed, and whether it will outline the content of those discussions.
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Question reference: S6O-02083
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 March 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it has put in place to support island communities in advance of Hulls 801 and 802, and other ferries, coming into service.
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Question reference: S6W-15771
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 09 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Dorothy Bain on 22 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether any (a) ministers, (b) officials and (c) special advisers were consulted before the offer of immunity from prosecution was made to prison officers charged with the care of Allan Marshall.
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Question reference: S6W-15770
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 09 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the decision of the Lord Advocate to instruct the police to investigate the Scottish Prison Service for corporate homicide, whether it will hand over to Police Scotland all correspondence, transcripts, notes of meetings and all other communications with ministers, their officials and the Scottish Prison Service to assist with this investigation.
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Question reference: S6W-15034
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the full-time equivalent staffing levels were in Transport Scotland’s Ferries Unit in each year from 2012 to date.
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Question reference: S6W-15033
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 16 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the recommendations in Project Neptune that it is taking forward for public consultation.
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Question reference: S6W-15032
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 16 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the Minister for Transport’s reported commitment on this issue, what steps it has taken to ensure that its private sector consultant, Ernst and Young, meets with trade unions organising Scotland’s ferry workers to discuss Project Neptune.
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Question reference: S6W-15031
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 16 February 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 15 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many times Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd has time chartered the MV Arrow for service on publicly-contracted ferry routes in Scotland from January 2012 to date, and what the (a) duration and (b) cost was of the time charter in each instance.
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Question reference: S6W-15335
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 7 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what support it is giving to organisations that support those affected by workplace bullying.
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