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-06438
- Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-03293 by Shona Robison on 11 October 2021, what the current status is of its new hate crime strategy, and what further steps it will take to tackle Islamophobia in Scotland, in light of the recommendations in the Report of the inquiry into Islamophobia in Scotland by the Cross-Party Group on Tackling Islamophobia.
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Question reference: S6W-06434
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish information on the reasons for Child Disability Payment applications not proceeding to stage two of the application process.
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Question reference: S6W-06399
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many properties supported through the Open Market Shared Equity scheme it (a) has taken and (b) retains a “golden share” in, broken down by local authority area.
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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-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-06878
- 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 funding it provides to local authorities to provide young people leaving care with suitable accommodation.
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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-06813
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many requests from tenants for repair services have been made to each (a) local authority and (b) housing association in each year since 1999.