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-02978
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it has only recently begun its consultation, Building standards (fire safety) - external wall systems, on the introduction of a ban on the use of combustible cladding and insulation on the external facades of certain residential high-rise buildings, in light of such a ban being introduced in England in 2018.
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Question reference: S6W-02810
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 09 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what evidence it used when deciding which venues and settings would require visitors to be subject to a COVID-19 vaccine status check before entry.
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Question reference: S6W-03096
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 29 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to expand on its work with Scottish diaspora networks in the coming year.
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Question reference: S6W-02969
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 September 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 29 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-02135 by Graeme Dey on 6 September 2021, whether it will publish the terms of reference for the independent review, and whether this replaces the policy review it launched on 2 February 2017 into future tendering for ferry service contracts.
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Question reference: S6W-02940
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 29 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to review the remuneration levels of councillors.
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Question reference: S6W-03411
- Asked by: Rona Mackay, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 2021
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Ash Denham on 29 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made on revising the Fire and Rescue Framework for the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service.
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Question reference: S6W-03412
- Asked by: Joe FitzPatrick, MSP for Dundee City West, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 2021
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Ash Denham on 29 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the report and recommendations of the Legal Aid Payment Advisory Panel.
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Question reference: S6W-03408
- Asked by: Emma Harper, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 2021
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether the NHS will continue on the emergency footing that the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care previously extended to 30 September 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-03227
- Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what mechanisms, other than local authority byelaws, it would consider appropriate to create protest-free buffer zones outside clinics that provide abortion services.
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Question reference: S6W-03093
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 29 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when it anticipates its proposed National Towns of Culture scheme will be launched.
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