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-19726
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 17 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what meetings it has had with Scottish Opera since May 2021, and what the agreed outcomes were of any such meetings.
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Question reference: S6W-19721
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 17 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what meetings it has had with the National Library of Scotland since May 2021, and what the agreed outcomes were of any such meetings.
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Question reference: S6W-19725
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 17 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what meetings it has had with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra since May 2021, and what the agreed outcomes were of any such meetings.
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Question reference: S6W-19748
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 17 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its paper, A Culture Strategy for Scotland, whether it will provide an update on how it is increasing diversity within the cultural sector.
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Question reference: S6W-19760
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 17 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its paper, A Culture Strategy for Scotland, whether it will provide an update on how it is working with culture conveners from local government and culture trusts; whether it has established a joint meeting of arts and culture convenors, and, if so, when any such meeting took place.
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Question reference: S6W-19756
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 17 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its paper, A Culture Strategy for Scotland, whether it is actively promoting Historic Environment Scotland’s work on climate change, and, if so, whether it can provide examples of this.
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Question reference: S6W-19763
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 17 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of each organisation that has received funding from its Creative Communities programme in each year since it was established.
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Question reference: S6W-19698
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 17 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-17512 by Kevin Stewart on 11 May 2023, whether it will provide an update on any actions from the Road Safety Framework Local Partnership Forum – North meeting on 15 June 2023 to (a) mitigate and (b) reduce the number of speeding offences on the North Coast 500 route.
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Question reference: S6W-19758
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 17 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its paper, A Culture Strategy for Scotland, whether it will provide an update on its work with Creative Scotland to map local authority support for culture and to explore future models of collaboration between national and local bodies.
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Question reference: S6W-19754
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 17 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its paper, A Culture Strategy for Scotland, whether it will provide an update on whether it has established a partnership with (a) Creative Scotland and (b) Engage Scotland, to identify best practice and barriers, and develop new approaches to supporting schools, teachers and pupils to engage more confidently with contemporary visual arts and design, and, if so, whether it can provide details of this.
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