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-01344
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what plans are in place to increase the uptake for the (a) bowel, (b) breast and (c) cervical national screening programmes.
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Question reference: S6W-01261
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 29 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what the timescale is for the implementation group that has been tasked with taking forward the recommendations of the National Review of Eating Disorder Services to carry out its work.
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Question reference: S6W-01702
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 22 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 29 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many property factor enforcement orders have been made against property factors by the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland housing and property chamber in each year since 2011.
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Question reference: S6W-01568
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what action professional football clubs must take under the COVID-19 restrictions for it to consider approving attendances of more than 2,000 spectators at fixtures.
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Question reference: S6W-01569
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the number of spectators permitted to attend professional football club matches in Glasgow under the COVID-19 restrictions is fewer than that agreed for the recent European championship fixtures in the city.
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Question reference: S6W-01570
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out of the preparations by professional football clubs in Glasgow for hosting more than 2,000 spectators at fixtures under the COVID-19 restrictions, and whether these meet the standards set by (a) it and (b) the SFA ahead of agreeing larger attendances at the recent European championship fixtures in the city.
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Question reference: S6W-01705
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what scientific evidence is being used to determine the capacities permitted at football stadiums.
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Question reference: S6W-01113
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 28 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-00148 by Clare Haughey on 8 June 2021, what action it is taking to disseminate the information, and who is responsible for this in (a) Scotland and (b) the northeast of Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-00946
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 28 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it will monitor the amended permitted development rights for aquaculture, under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development and Use Classes) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2020, and what the environmental impact of the alterations will be.
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Question reference: S6W-00932
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 28 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to SEPA issuing a "very poor" draft assessment of the Ineos Kinneil terminal for 2019, due to significant non-compliance and the requirement for urgent improvement, and what discussion it has had with (a) SEPA and (b) Ineos about (i) the assessment, and (ii) flaring and effluent breaches.