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-01061
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when it will provide an update on (a) NHS infrastructure projects and (b) funding for a replacement eye hospital for NHS Lothian.
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Question reference: S6W-01092
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has developed for the 2021-22 flu season.
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Question reference: S6W-01049
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what support it provides to people who have (a) swallowing and (b) communication problems due to long-term illness.
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Question reference: S6W-01055
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the gender gap in the number of reported COVID-19 cases is an indication of its approach to allowing the Glasgow Euro fan zone to be opened.
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Question reference: S6W-00947
- 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 27 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will gauge public support for the amended permitted development rights for aquaculture under the Town and Country Planning (General Permitted Development and Use Classes) (Scotland) Amendment Order 2020, and for the environmental impact of the alterations.
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Question reference: S6W-01411
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 27 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that local authorities progress withdrawal from school requests from the parent with whom children ordinarily reside, in the absence of a court order, to prevent home education being undermined and used to exert control by coercive, abusive or violent former partners
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Question reference: S6W-01348
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 27 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when 5 to 18-year-olds will begin to have access to free bus travel through the National Entitlement Card.
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Question reference: S6W-01229
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 27 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government by what date the revised fuel poverty strategy will be published; what consultation will take place; with whom, and over what timescale.
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Question reference: S6W-01210
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 27 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the development of stepping stone, pre-commercial floating wind projects ahead of the ScotWind leasing round as a vehicle to building the supply chain in Scotland and supporting the just transition to renewables.
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Question reference: S6W-01228
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 27 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government by what date the new Fuel Poverty Advisory Body will be established.
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