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-04291
- Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 12 November 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 24 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-03587 by Humza Yousaf on 8 November 2021, whether hyperbaric treatment is currently being considered by the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) as a possible treatment, and when a decision will be taken on whether it will be made available to patients.
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Question reference: S6W-04285
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 12 November 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 24 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether differentials in salary bands will be maintained between care staff and senior care staff, within the cost of care model.
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Question reference: S6W-04596
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 November 2021
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Lorna Slater on 24 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it will give effect to the commitment in the shared policy programme agreed by it and the Scottish Green Party Parliamentary Group to make more use of translocation of beavers and provide financial and practical support for this.
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Question reference: S6W-04363
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 November 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 24 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Police Scotland on the reported use of policing tactics such as kettling during COP26.
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Question reference: S6W-04361
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 November 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 24 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with (a) climate activist groups and (b) environmental organisations, regarding their concerns about the policing of protests during COP26.
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Question reference: S6W-04365
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 November 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 24 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that home efficiency targets are delivered in the (a) private rented sector and (b) social rented sector, without tenants having to take financial responsibility for the targets being met.
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Question reference: S6W-04420
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 November 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 24 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many Best Start Grant Pregnancy and Baby Payments have been made in each year since the scheme was established.
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Question reference: S6W-04366
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 November 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 24 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with tenants’ unions, including Living Rent, regarding its proposed rented sector strategy.
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Question reference: S6W-04281
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 November 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 24 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its capital allocation has been to North Ayrshire Council in real terms in each year since 1999-2000, up to and including 2021-22.
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Question reference: S6W-04253
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 November 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 24 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its current estimate is of the number of people who have been trafficked into Scotland or are being held against their will through acts of modern slavery.