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-27911
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 May 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 13 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether there are any ongoing skills reviews currently in progress for which the Minister for Higher and Further Education is responsible.
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Question reference: S6W-28031
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 June 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 13 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to introduce regulations under section 74 of the Visitor Levy (Scotland) Bill, as passed.
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Question reference: S6W-28135
- Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 June 2024
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Angus Robertson on 13 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government when the Registrar General for Scotland will publish the next results from the 2022 Census.
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Question reference: S6W-27933
- Asked by: Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 June 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 13 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to have a national integrated ticketing system for public transport in place and operational before the end of the current parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S6W-27919
- Asked by: Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 May 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 13 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of any financial support that it has provided to (a) small, (b) medium-sized, (c) large and (d) start-up businesses in the Edinburgh Eastern constituency in each of the last five financial years.
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Question reference: S6W-27930
- Asked by: Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 June 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 13 June 2024
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Question reference: S6W-28011
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 June 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 13 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will remove renewable liquid fuels such as hydrotreated vegetable oil from the “polluting heating systems” criteria that are anticipated to be within its proposed Heat in Buildings Bill.
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Question reference: S6W-27865
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 May 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 13 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-16651 by Maree Todd on 21 April 2023, whether it will provide an update on whether it has commenced the recruitment for the additional roles to ensure that every GP practice has access to a mental health and wellbeing service, and, if so, how many have been recruited, and what training is in place for them.
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Question reference: S6W-27927
- Asked by: Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 May 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 13 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has engaged with (a) universities, (b) Universities Scotland, (c) the Scottish Funding Council, (d) the Department for Education and (e) any other part of the UK Government regarding contingency planning in the event that a university in Scotland becomes bankrupt, and whether it has plans in place to deal with such an incident.
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Question reference: S6W-28050
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 June 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 13 June 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what the average ambulance response time is for a cardiac arrest in NHS Dumfries and Galloway.
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