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-31682
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many reported instances there have been of CalMac’s booking system showing that a ferry service was fully booked when it was not, in each month since the new ticketing system was introduced.
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Question reference: S6W-31695
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many businesses have received funding for training from the Apprenticeship Levy in each year since the levy was introduced.
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Question reference: S6W-31688
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what advice has been provided to GPs regarding women who have been potentially exposed to diethylstilbestrol (DES).
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Question reference: S6W-31693
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many children and young people have been placed in informal kinship care arrangements in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S6W-31686
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made on developing a register of ancient woodlands.
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Question reference: S6W-31656
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that free sanitary products are available across the rail network.
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Question reference: S6W-31683
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that the Isle of Colonsay will be without a Monday ferry service for up to nine weeks in the winter period.
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Question reference: S6W-31674
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the Minister for Public Finance on 12 November 2024 that more than 164,000 homes have planning permission but have not yet been built, how many of these homes it considers are (a) viable and (b) undeliverable.
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Question reference: S6W-31677
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to CALL Scotland's 2023-24 annual report.
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Question reference: S6W-31696
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 November 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 December 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the findings of the University of Manchester research article, All present and correct? Alternative provision and school attendance, and, in light of this research, what action it is taking to (a) increase collaborative working at local authority level to improve school attendance, (b) develop localised approaches to reduce rates of school non-attendance and (c) develop processes to support children and young people with complex needs who require alternative provision outside of the school setting, including to support them when returning to regular education provision.
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