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-03201
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 May 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to further strengthen the economy of Glasgow.
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Question reference: S5W-22097
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 26 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-20987 by Clare Haughey on 17 January 2019, whether policy officials have completed processing and collating information relating to the recruitment of mental health workers.
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Question reference: S5W-22136
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 22 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what requirement there is on its directorates to explain and address any reported race and ethnic disparities.
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Question reference: S5W-22135
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 22 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on using external bodies to assist with its monitoring of race and ethnic disparity.
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Question reference: S5W-22133
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 21 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that its directorates have a consistent approach in collecting and presenting race and ethnicity data; how such information is collated; whether it expects each directorate to carry this work out on a continual basis; which directorate has overall responsibility for (a) overseeing this work and (b) the monitoring of all of the data that it collects on race and ethnic disparity in public life, and how it ensures that this is published in an open and transparent manner.
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Question reference: S5W-22139
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 21 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what data on race and ethnicity it collects, and how this is made public.
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Question reference: S5O-03008
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it will carry out a review of the car park booking system.
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Question reference: S5T-01544
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 March 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital faces a repair bill of up to £50 million.
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Question reference: S5O-02995
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 March 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to publish an up-to-date timetable for the introduction of legislation included in its Programme for Government.
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Question reference: S5W-21582
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 5 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on when the responses to its consultation on a female genital mutilation (FGM) bill will be published.