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-07031
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Jackson Carlaw on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body when it will proceed with the appointment of a new Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme trustee board.
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Question reference: S6W-06936
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many of the (a) laptops and (b) tablets delivered to school pupils in (i) South Ayrshire and (ii) East Ayrshire have (A) been damaged and (B) had to be replaced.
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Question reference: S6W-06919
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when it last conducted an audit of the housing management profession workforce, skills and succession planning required to support the profession and the delivery of the Housing to 2040 strategy.
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Question reference: S6W-06885
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how it regulates large-scale private sector landlords, in light of reports that around one in 10 private-rented properties in Edinburgh are owned by just 15 registered landlords.
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Question reference: S6W-06863
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to review the conveyancing system and associated legislation.
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Question reference: S6W-06851
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by George Adam on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it records when special advisers are asked to comment on freedom of information requests and, if (a) so, how many times this happened in each of the last three years and (b) not, what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
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Question reference: S6W-06877
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken to improve the financial wellbeing of young people leaving care.
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Question reference: S6W-06920
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 25 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how the Housing to 2040 strategy supports the development of the next generation of housing management professionals.
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Question reference: S6W-06905
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in the light of the reported 49% decline in the index of breeding seabirds in Scotland since the 1980s, what assessment it has made of the impact of the reported increased mortality of seabirds recorded along the North Sea coasts in autumn 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-06835
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on delivering improvements to home insulation in each year since 1999.
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