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-16004
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has decided to end the provision of routine breast screening for women aged over 75, and, if so, what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
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Question reference: S6F-01944
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 March 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 March 2023
To ask the First Minister when the Cabinet will next meet.
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Question reference: S6W-15079
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 20 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it (a) has fully costed the 17,000 return points that will reportedly be required as part of the Deposit Return Scheme, (b) will share the estimated cost for each business required to purchase a return point and (c) plans to support businesses that are unable to meet the cost of the return point and any other costs associated with the scheme.
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Question reference: S6W-15159
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 15 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether spill data on monitored combined sewer overflows (CSOs), where data is currently reported to SEPA, will be published annually, in light of the commitment in Scottish Water's Improving Urban Waters route map that annual publication of this data would commence by December 2022.
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Question reference: S6W-15157
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 13 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the response to the members' business debate on motion S6M-06148 (Sewage and Scotland's Waters) by the Minister for Environment and Land Reform on 26 October 2022 (Official Report, c. 124), how many of the (a) 40 waste water treatment works and (b) 26 priority storm overflows, which the Minister stated would be improved over the next six years, have since undergone improvement works.
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Question reference: S6W-15160
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 13 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when the last inspection of each of the 345 SEPA-licensed and regulated sewer networks in Scotland was carried out; whether any were found not to be compliant with their licence conditions at their last inspection, and, if so, (a) for what reason, (b) whether any work was carried out on them and (c) whether it will provide a list of any non-compliant networks.
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Question reference: S6W-15158
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 13 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many of the approximately 1,000 network and treatment works combined sewer overflows (CSOs) which, according to Scottish Water's Improving Urban Waters route map, are "discharging to the highest priority waters (including all designated shellfish and bathing waters)", have had monitoring installed on them, and whether it will provide a list of these CSOs.
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Question reference: S6W-14995
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 10 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to raise awareness of thrombosis and the risks to people of the condition.
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Question reference: S6W-14708
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 10 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how many referrals have been made to Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland’s Long COVID Support Service in each month since it was established.
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Question reference: S6W-15239
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what is being done to tackle misogyny in schools, and what plans there are to improve education on misogyny in schools.
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