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: S5O-02900
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 February 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to forge greater links with Singapore.
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Question reference: S5W-21058
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 25 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it will publish its family justice modernisation strategy.
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Question reference: S5W-21015
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 25 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to review the Charter of Grandchildren to reflect the changes in the role that grandparents play in the lives of their grandchildren.
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Question reference: S5W-21016
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 25 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on revising (a) section 11 of the Children (Scotland) Act 1995 and (b) the Family Law (Scotland) Act 2006 to allow greater rights for grandparents to have access to their grandchildren.
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Question reference: S5W-21018
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 25 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it has with groups that advocate on behalf of grandparents who seek the right to access their grandchildren following family breakdown.
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Question reference: S5W-21017
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 25 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment has been made of the viability of changing legislation to allow grandparents greater rights regarding the custody of their grandchildren following family breakdown.
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Question reference: S5W-20882
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many police-recorded common assaults on emergency workers there have been in the Scottish Borders in each of the last five years; broken down by type of emergency worker, and how many led to subsequent (a) arrests, (b) prosecutions and (c) convictions.
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Question reference: S5W-20883
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 22 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how much has been allocated to each local authority area by the Rural Tourism Infrastructure Fund in each of the last 10 years, also broken down by the projects supported.
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Question reference: S5W-20881
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 22 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has provided to the agritourism sector in each of the last 10 years.
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Question reference: S5W-20767
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 17 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many trains have been (a) cancelled and (b) delayed on the Borders Railway in each month since September 2015.