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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government whether it will commit to reversing any plans for more unstaffed train stations following ScotRail moving into public ownership.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) primary or (b) secondary legislation would be required to (i) ban perpetrators of antisocial behaviour from the railway and (ii) make it a specific offence to abuse or threaten rail workers in the course of their employment.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government what the timescales are for the Fair Fares review, and how it will engage with (a) trade unions and (b) the public on this.
Submitting member has a registered interest.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to (a) introduce powers that would ban perpetrators of antisocial behaviour from the railway and (b) make it a specific offence to abuse or threaten rail workers in the course of their employment.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment has been made regarding availability of university places in 2022 in light of reports from the Scottish Funding Council that places will be cut by 1,400.
To ask the Scottish Government how many specialist “Lead Teachers” have been recruited since the introduction of the programme in August 2021.
To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) local authorities and (b) other public sector organisations will be required to bid for services such as providing care or social services under its National Care Service draft proposals.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it (a) can take and (b) is taking to ensure that the Consul General of China does not have any undue influence over local or national politics in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government whether any companies that currently deliver social care in Scotland will be permitted to bid under its National Care Service draft proposals.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the potential impact of including glass in its Deposit Return Scheme, in light of other parts of the UK not including it.