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
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Question reference: S6W-03388
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 1 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comment by the Minister for Transport on 23 September 2021 that there is a plan in place to provide 30,000 electric vehicle charge points by 2030, which is “evolving”, how many (a) electric vehicle (EV), (b) diesel and (c) petrol cars it projects will be in use by 2030; how frequently the plan projects the EVs will be charged, based on annual mileage; how many EVs it is notionally allocating per charging point; where the (i) private and (ii) public charging points will be located, and how much electricity it projects will required to be generated to service the charging points.
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Question reference: S6W-03731
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 1 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it is encouraging and supporting co-operative business models and community ownership as a core part of the economic recovery from COVID-19.
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Question reference: S6W-03449
- Asked by: Colin Smyth, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 1 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much active travel funding it has provided to each local authority in each of the last three years, also broken down by support from the (a) Spaces for People and (b) Places for Everyone Fund.
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Question reference: S6W-03834
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 1 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether its policy announcement on 15 October 2021 regarding trade support and promotion for the fossil fuel sector overseas differs from the UK Government’s strategy on this matter published in March 2021, and what its position is on whether it has sought to present the UK Government's policy as its own.
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Question reference: S6W-03861
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 1 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when it last met with Police Scotland to discuss drink spiking and the recent reports of spiking by injection.
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Question reference: S6W-03883
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 1 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the UK Government in relation to the reintroduction of previously relaxed COVID-19 restrictions in light of the increasing number of cases.
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Question reference: S6W-03868
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 1 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when the Scottish Prison Service annual reports and accounts for 2020-21 will be published.
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Question reference: S6W-04079
- Asked by: Kaukab Stewart, MSP for Glasgow Kelvin, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 October 2021
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Clare Haughey on 29 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its approach to implementing the Provision of Early Learning and Childcare (Specified Children) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2020 to entitle all children, whose school start is deferred, to access funded early learning and childcare in their deferred year, from August 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-03684
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the MS Society report, Neurology Now, and, in light of the report's findings, what its position is on introducing a national reporting framework to measure improvements in care and support.
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Question reference: S6W-03683
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve data collection regarding the (a) prevalence of, (b) treatment waiting times for and (c) cost of treating neurological conditions.
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