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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

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Question reference: S6O-03414

Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 May 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 May 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of any reduction in the number of taxis in Glasgow as a result of the introduction of the Low Emission Zone in June 2023.

Question reference: S6O-03267

Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 March 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 March 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on any progress towards meeting its target of reducing food waste by 33% by 2025.

Question reference: S6O-03102

Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to address the housing emergency in Glasgow.

Question reference: S6O-03075

Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what impact the 2024-25 Budget will have on Strathclyde Partnership for Transport.

Question reference: S6O-03039

Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 February 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to support staff retention and wellbeing in primary schools in Glasgow.

Question reference: S6F-02748

Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 January 2024

To ask the First Minister, in light of the Scottish Government's plans to open the first safe drug consumption room in Glasgow later this year, what assurances he can provide that other areas of drugs policy, including spaces for residential rehabilitation, will not be deprioritised.

Question reference: S6O-02992

Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether fishing in the Firth of Clyde will be suspended in 2024, in line with the cod spawning season.

Question reference: S6W-24553

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S6W-23891

Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2023
Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 9 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have (a) had and (b) been refused lung volume reduction procedures in (i) 2021, (ii) 2022 and (iii) 2023 to date, also broken down by NHS board, and which hospitals offer lung volume reduction procedures.

a) The total number of inpatient and daycase hospital episodes here a lung volume reduction procedure was recorded, in Scotland, from April 2020 to March 2023 is 15 . This total includes two locations of treatment (i) Golden Jubilee National Hospital, National Waiting Times Centre and (ii) Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh at Little France, NHS Lothian.

Please note that figures for lung volume reduction procedures by individual location of treatment and financial year have ben aggregated to protect patient confidentiality, in accordance with our PHS Statistical Disclosure Protocol

Source: SMR01, Public Health Scotland, extract: 18 December 2023.

(b) This information is not held centrally.

Question reference: S6W-22716

Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 November 2023
Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 30 November 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on Glasgow City Council only posting a draft statement of its accounts for the financial year 2021-22.