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-16144
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 21 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) will pause the COVID-19 Infection Survey, which helps to monitor the prevalence of long Covid, what assessment it has made of any potential impact of an absence of ONS data on the (a) diagnosis and (b) monitoring of cases of long Covid, and how it plans to mitigate any such impact.
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Question reference: S6W-16143
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 21 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports that the Office for National Statistics (ONS) will pause the COVID-19 Infection Survey, which helps to monitor the prevalence of long Covid, whether it plans to replace the collection of long Covid data in the event that the COVID-19 Infection Survey does not recommence.
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Question reference: S6W-16653
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 19 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many SEPA employees have been working on water pollution, in each year since 2015.
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Question reference: S6W-16031
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 18 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many TikTok accounts it operates.
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Question reference: S6W-16029
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 14 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that any (a) civil servant, (b) ministerial and (c) other official correspondence conducted via Microsoft Teams chats is recorded for freedom of information purposes.
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Question reference: S6W-16030
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 14 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many of its phones have TikTok installed, and whether any ministers have TikTok installed on their phones.
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Question reference: S6W-16028
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 14 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that any official business conducted via WhatsApp is stored for freedom of information purposes.
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Question reference: S6W-16033
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by George Adam on 11 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many meetings the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care has had since he was appointed, broken down by month, and how many of those meetings had (a) civil servants present and (b) minutes prepared.
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Question reference: S6W-16032
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 5 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on TikTok in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S6W-15645
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 09 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 23 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the urgent question by Angus Robertson on 28 February 2023, whether the Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs and Culture plans to request the addition of a correction in the Official Report, within the 20 working day deadline of 28 March 2023, in relation to his statement that the claim that Scotland has 25% of Europe’s potential offshore wind resource “is now considered to be overtaken by developments”, in light of the UK Statistics Authority’s reported investigation and letter of 7 December 2022 stating that it was never accurate and that “it is good practice for elected representatives to correct their use of official statistics”.
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