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-07012
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 14 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what resources are being made available to NHS boards to help patients on their orthopaedic surgery waiting lists to remain healthy enough to be operated on, while they are waiting.
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Question reference: S6W-06830
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 14 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the Minister for Zero Carbon Buildings, Active Travel and Tenants' Rights and the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity have had with other ministers regarding the single person’s council tax discount.
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Question reference: S6W-06946
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 14 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether fluoride will be added to the public water supply in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-06985
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 14 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to use various technologies to (a) understand and (b) change behaviours in town centres.
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Question reference: S6W-06983
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 14 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has expanded and aligned funding of demonstration projects in towns and town centres.
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Question reference: S6W-06973
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 14 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take in response to reports that over 240,000 calls to the NHS 24 111 number were unanswered between September 2021 and January 2022, which represents an average of over 48,000 calls per month.
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Question reference: S6W-06948
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that householders comply with new legislation on interlinked fire alarms in domestic properties.
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Question reference: S6W-06980
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 14 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the statement in the publication, A New Future for Scotland's Town Centres, what measures it has taken to address concerns of the “unfair playing field stacked against town centres”.
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Question reference: S6W-06941
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 14 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what funding opportunities exist for people applying for Masters level courses in social work at Scottish universities to ensure that all fees can be met without placing financial burden on them.
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Question reference: S6W-06914
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 14 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage rise in the financial support available to older people who are in relative or absolute poverty it estimates is required to lift them out of poverty.
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