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-28230
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 June 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 15 July 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many fatal accident inquiries are currently outstanding.
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Question reference: S6W-28223
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 June 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 15 July 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on how many sailings under the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services contract with CalMac Ferries have been provided by the MV Alfred since May 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-28229
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 17 June 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answer expected on 15 July 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-19612 by Mairi Gougeon on 13 July 2023, what it is doing to reduce the number of red squirrel kits that are killed, and what its prediction is for the number of killed red squirrel kits in (a) 2024 and (b) 2025 based on the current felling and harvesting programme.
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Question reference: S6W-28224
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 June 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 15 July 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what the total value is of the time charter agreements that it has signed with Pentland Ferries for the MV Alfred between April 2023 and July 2024.
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Question reference: S6W-28219
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 June 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 15 July 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an estimate of the amount of revenue that Peel Ports has received from car parking charges at Ardrossan Harbour since 2012.
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Question reference: S6W-28232
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 June 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 15 July 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the number of NHS boards that provide psychosocial support training for renal healthcare professionals.
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Question reference: S6W-28222
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 June 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 15 July 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will issue a statement on the safety of the MV Alfred, in light of the publication of the Marine Accident Investigation Branch’s report into the grounding of the vessel at Swona Island on 5 July 2022.
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Question reference: S6W-28215
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 June 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 15 July 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will take urgent steps to ensure that trade unions' organising staff at CalMac Ferries can have direct discussions with the consultants commissioned by Transport Scotland to conduct the due diligence of a Teckal-compliant direct award of the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services contract from 1 October 2024 to the incumbent public sector operator.
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Question reference: S6W-28226
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 June 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 15 July 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether a crew fatigue management plan was in place on the MV Alfred when it was time chartered from Pentland Ferries in April 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-28231
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 June 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 15 July 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many fatal accident inquiries it expects the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service to complete in 2024.
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