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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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 31 October 2024
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Question reference: S6W-00020

  • Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 13 May 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 27 May 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how many fatalities have resulted from house fires in the last 12 months.

Question reference: S6W-00029

  • Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 14 May 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 27 May 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what plans there are to increase the frequency of passenger train services between Kilmarnock and Dumfries.

Question reference: S6W-00129

  • Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 20 May 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 27 May 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it is considering a high street voucher scheme, as is being implemented in Northern Ireland.

Question reference: S6W-00123

  • Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 20 May 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 27 May 2021

To ask the Scottish Government (a) whether it has used, and (b) what plans it has to use, the so-called "keeping pace" power in section 1(1) of the UK Withdrawal from the EU (Continuity) (Scotland) Act 2021.

Question reference: S6W-00028

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 14 May 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 27 May 2021

To ask the Scottish Government when social distancing requirements on ferries to Scotland's islands will be the same as that on aircraft flying to islands.

Question reference: S6W-00015

  • Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 13 May 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 27 May 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on how much electricity it estimates will be exported from Scotland to England and Wales in 2020-21, and how much was exported in 2006-07.

Question reference: S6W-00071

  • Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 27 May 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how much money has been paid out from the Tenant Hardship Loan Fund.

Question reference: S6W-00059

  • Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 17 May 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 27 May 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on when it anticipates care home residents will be allowed to be taken for outdoor visits by their designated visitors.

Question reference: S6W-00149

  • Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 21 May 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 27 May 2021

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the Urgent question by Kevin Stewart on 20 May 2021 regarding the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland report, Authority to discharge, on what date it was initially advised that the discharge of patients who had not been tested for COVID-19 or had tested positive from hospital to care homes was unlawful.

Question reference: S6W-00150

  • Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 21 May 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 27 May 2021

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the Urgent question by Kevin Stewart on 20 May 2021 regarding the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland report, Authority to discharge, whether it had sought advice regarding whether the discharge of patients who had not been tested for COVID-19 or had tested positive from hospital to care homes was unlawful and, if so, whether it will publish this advice.