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-01359
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 6 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it gave, as part of its revised alcohol and drug treatment policy, to the importance of services assessing the needs of clients for concessionary travel support and proactively signing off NCT002 forms as an integral component of a recovery-oriented system of care.
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Question reference: S6W-01350
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 6 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many children and young people have been (a) fostered and (b) adopted in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S6W-01442
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 July 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 6 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether the terms of (a) Abellio ScotRail and (b) Serco Caledonian Sleeper’s Emergency Measures Agreement prohibit the payment of indemnification to the operator in the event of industrial action.
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Question reference: S6W-01468
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on discussions with the UK Government on work to deliver the six-to 16-year-old data required to roll out the Scottish Child Payment.
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Question reference: S6W-01486
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 6 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what actions it will undertake with (a) Glasgow City Council, and (b) SEC Limited to address the dilapidated condition of the SEC tunnel walkway, which links the Scottish Event Campus to the Exhibition Centre railway station, and whether it considers it feasible to expedite its planned refurbishment, ahead of the COP 26 conference.
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Question reference: S6W-01416
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 July 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 6 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-00828 by Graeme Dey on 7 July 2021, whether it will provide a breakdown of the resources that were used to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak, and what resources have subsequently been directed back.
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Question reference: S6W-01368
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 6 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-34320 by Angela Constance on 20 January 2021, and in light of the work of the overdose prevention service in Glasgow, which did not attract prosecution by the Lord Advocate, and did not require UK Government support or new devolved powers to implement, by what date it will enable such overdose prevention facilities to operate as part of NHS Scotland's health provision.
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Question reference: S6W-01419
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 July 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 6 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact that the UK Government’s proposals for (a) subsidy control mechanisms and (b) competition law might have on its policies for (i) the procurement of services and vessels and (ii) fares on publicly-contracted ferry services.
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Question reference: S6W-01441
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 July 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 6 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government for what reasons the Prior Information Notice for the ScotRail franchise anticipates a core Operator of Last Resort period of three to five years, and not the maximum, 10.
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Question reference: S6W-01489
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 July 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its assessment is of the requirement for affordable housing in each of the next ten years.