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-15540
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 17 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting the implementation of the recommendations made by Sir Lewis Ritchie in his 2018 report, Independent External View of Skye, Lochalsh and South West Ross Out of Hours Services.
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Question reference: S6W-15542
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care last met NHS (a) Highland, (b) Orkney and (c) Shetland.
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Question reference: S6W-15533
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the total number of beds available at Portree Hospital has been in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S6W-15534
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the average ambulance response time has been in NHS (a) Highland, (b) Orkney and (c) Shetland in each year since 1999, also broken down by individual station.
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Question reference: S6W-15054
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 16 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many years behind the original timetable, published in 2011, the project to complete the dualling of the A9 between Perth and Inverness is.
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Question reference: S6W-15057
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 16 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government on what date Transport Scotland first raised concerns with the Scottish Ministers that the 2025 deadline for completing the dualling of the A9 between Perth and Inverness was not achievable.
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Question reference: S6O-02050
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 March 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many school pupils in the Highlands and Islands are currently being taught in schools that are not of a "good" or "satisfactory" suitability.
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Question reference: S6W-14533
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 January 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 6 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the (a) length, (b) beam and (c) maximum operational draught will be of (i) Hull 802, currently under construction for CMAL and (ii) the two vessels that CMAL has ordered from the Cemre Marin Endustri yard to serve on the Uig to Lochmaddy and Uig to Tarbert ferry routes.
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Question reference: S6W-14542
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 January 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 6 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether the two vessels that CMAL has ordered from the Cemre Marin Endustri yard to serve on the Uig to Lochmaddy and Uig to Tarbert ferry routes will have Changing Places toilets, and whether it can confirm whether all future new ferries will have Changing Places toilet facilities.
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Question reference: S6O-01981
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 March 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it engages with local communities to ensure that their transport needs are met.
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