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-01072
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 28 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 20 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what the average number of people on council housing waiting lists has been in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S6W-01063
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government on how many occasions police have responded to a call regarding a person experiencing a mental health crisis in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S6W-01091
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many times police officers have (a) drawn and (b) used tasers in each year since their issue.
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Question reference: S6W-00931
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 20 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that women who are pregnant following the death of a baby are able to access promptly the continuity of carer model as it rolls out in their local midwifery service.
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Question reference: S6W-01181
- Asked by: Willie Coffey, MSP for Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 20 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on progress with establishing a National Care Service and what the impact of such a service would have on people living in the Kilmarnock and Irvine Valley area.
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Question reference: S6W-01120
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 20 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that the human right to access to information and participation in environmental matters will be upheld in the process of deciding national developments to be incorporated into National Planning Framework 4.
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Question reference: S6W-01119
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 20 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that the national developments that are to be incorporated into National Planning Framework 4 take account of the need to ensure a safe, clean, healthy and sustainable environment in order to respect, protect and fulfil human rights.
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Question reference: S6W-01114
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 20 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it anticipates a decision on the continuation of telemedical abortion care will be announced.
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Question reference: S6W-01117
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 20 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it will take into consideration (a) legally binding net-zero emissions targets and (b) the aspirations of its Biodiversity Strategy when deciding on national developments to be incorporated into National Planning Framework 4.
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Question reference: S6W-01118
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 20 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what environmental assessments the national developments to be incorporated into National Planning Framework 4 will be subject to.
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