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-18378
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 August 2018
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Michael Matheson on 23 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what steps are being taken to ensure that a public sector body can bid for rail franchises in Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-17691
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 10 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when its consultation on a Good Food Nation Bill will begin.
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Question reference: S5W-17692
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 10 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how long its consultation on a Good Food Nation Bill will run for.
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Question reference: S5W-17961
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 August 2018
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Michael Matheson on 2 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the consultation in 2017, when it will publish proposals for the National Concessionary Travel Scheme.
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Question reference: S5W-17482
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 June 2018
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Fergus Ewing on 26 June 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making to complete the devolution of forestry.
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Question reference: S5W-17087
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 21 June 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the comment by the Chair of Scottish Natural Heritage that Wester Ross’s UNESCO Biosphere Reserve status will “attract people from all over the world”.
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Question reference: S5O-02290
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 June 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 June 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what flexibility there is for rural colleges in the harmonisation of terms and conditions under national bargaining.
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Question reference: S5W-17086
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 June 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 19 June 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the investment in a flight simulator at Farr High School, Thurso to help students studying STEM subjects, what its position is on the use of such technology in aiding the study of these subjects.
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Question reference: S5W-16887
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 24 May 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 11 June 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how its plan to halve childhood obesity by 2030 can be assisted by its Good Food Nation policy.
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Question reference: S5W-16706
- Asked by: Gail Ross, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 May 2018
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Fergus Ewing on 17 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has provided a response to the National Council of Rural Advisers' interim report on the implications of Brexit for rural Scotland.
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