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-02379
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 20 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 6 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it reduced the budget under the heading, Creative Scotland and Other Arts, by £4.1 million in its 2021-22 budget, compared with its 2020-21 budget.
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Question reference: S6W-02342
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 6 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether Police Scotland being funded by the UK Government to train Sri Lankan police has compromised Scottish Government commitments on human rights.
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Question reference: S6W-02335
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 6 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether community policing training delivered by Police Scotland in Sri Lanka includes training on intelligence gathering or operating intelligence databases on communities; whether any technology or software relating to community policing has been transferred to Sri Lanka, and what functions that technology or software has.
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Question reference: S6W-02337
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 6 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of recent media reports, whether it can confirm that Police Scotland has halted all training of Sri Lankan police, and under what circumstances such training would resume, and whether it will commit to publishing in full the outcome of the current review of Police Scotland’s training in Sri Lanka.
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Question reference: S6W-02339
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 6 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether Sri Lanka is on Police Scotland’s International Development and Innovation Unit’s list of countries for which ministerial approval is required for training to take place there, and, if not, whether, for any other reason, ministerial approval is required for Police Scotland to provide training to Sri Lankan police.
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Question reference: S6W-02117
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 3 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to update the policy framework regarding health assessments for looked after children and young people.
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Question reference: S6W-02111
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 3 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the consultation on its short-term lets draft Licensing Order and Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA), what method it used to estimate that there are 32,000 short-term lets in Scotland, and whether it will provide a breakdown of this figure by how many are (a) a single room in a property, (b) a shared room in a property, (c) an entire property and (d) unconventional accommodation such as an outhouse or yurt.
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Question reference: S6W-02110
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 3 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the estimated number of (a) empty private residential properties, (b) empty public sector residential properties, (c) second homes and (d) self-catering units there currently are.
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Question reference: S6W-02118
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 09 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 3 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recommendations in the Barnardo's Scotland report, Care In Mind Paper 2: Health Assessments for Looked-after Children, and what plans it has to implement each of these.
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Question reference: S6W-02365
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 3 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many children were awaiting a neuro-developmental assessment on 1 August (a) 2019, (b) 2020 and (c) 2021, broken down by NHS board.
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