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-24632
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Emma Roddick on 29 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on when it will publish its Addressing Depopulation Action Plan, in light of its previous commitment to publish the action plan in Autumn 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-24530
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 29 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government when CalMac will (a) publish its carrying statistics for the period after 16 May 2023 and (b) complete its audit in order to allow the publication of its latest carrying statistics.
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Question reference: S6W-24531
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 29 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the question S6W-22545 by Fiona Hyslop on 10 November 2023, whether it can confirm the exact date on which it will publish Stantec's community needs assessment report on transport connectivity for Cowal and Rosneath.
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Question reference: S6W-24621
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 26 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to publish its Culture Partnership Agreement with COSLA, as set out in A Culture Strategy for Scotland: Action Plan.
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Question reference: S6W-24630
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 26 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding has been allocated from the Public Library Improvement Fund to libraries in each of the past 10 years.
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Question reference: S6W-24629
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 26 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government on what date its Culture and Creativity in Learning Group will publish its workplan, as set out in A Culture Strategy for Scotland: Action Plan.
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Question reference: S6W-24631
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 26 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-22701 by Christina McKelvie on 10 November 2023, how many times the Culture Conveners group, which it co-chairs along with COSLA, has met since January 2020.
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Question reference: S6W-24623
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 26 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government on what date it will hold its proposed Cultural Value Summit, as set out in A Culture Strategy for Scotland: Action Plan.
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Question reference: S6W-24622
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 26 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a timetable for the next steps regarding the development of a Percentage for the Arts scheme, as set out in A Culture Strategy for Scotland: Action Plan.
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Question reference: S6W-24626
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 26 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it plans to have established its central repository for culture sector data and research, and how this central repository will be made available to the sector and the wider public, as proposed in A Culture Strategy for Scotland: Action Plan.