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: S7W-03459
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 5 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government how it is ensuring that as many people as possible will be able to respond to its Proposed Fisheries Management Measures for Inshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and Proposed Priority Marine Feature (PMF) Management Areas consultation.
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Question reference: S7W-03458
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 5 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to monitor the socio-economic impacts of its proposed fisheries management measures for inshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and proposed Priority Marine Feature (PMF) Management Areas once they are in place and, if so, how.
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Question reference: S7W-03463
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 5 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the feasibility of ensuring compliance with its proposed fisheries management measures for inshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and proposed Priority Marine Feature (PMF) Management Areas.
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Question reference: S7W-03480
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 5 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will ring-fence the £7.38m arising from Barnett consequential generated by the UK Government’s Species Recovery Programme and allocate that funding to a new Species Recovery Fund.
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Question reference: S7W-03453
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 5 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of whether the repayment terms attached to the Private Rented Sector Landlord Loan adequately reflect the higher costs of installing low-carbon heating systems in rural and island properties, in light of landlords carrying out higher-cost rural installations being subject to the same repayment period as those undertaking lower-cost installations in urban areas.
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Question reference: S7W-03455
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 5 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether any Glasgow-built NBL MAN L12V18/21A V12 diesel generators are still installed as emergency standby generators in hospitals across the NHS Scotland estate.
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Question reference: S7W-03456
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 5 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether Ferguson Marine has ordered a new panel line from Pemamek and, if so, when it will be (a) installed and (b) commissioned for steel fabrication at the shipyard.
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Question reference: S7W-03473
- Asked by: Martyn Day, MSP for Falkirk East and Linlithgow, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 5 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-43779 by Mairi McAllan on 2 March 2026, what progress it has made on the options for community heat network support, including support for not-for-profit and co-operative ownership models.
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Question reference: S7W-03476
- Asked by: Jenny Young, MSP for Central Scot and Lothians West, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 5 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the national funding strategy for tertiary education, skills and apprenticeships, as required under the Tertiary Education and Training (Funding and Governance) (Scotland) Act 2026.
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Question reference: S7W-03484
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 5 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-44440 by Natalie Don-Innes on 24 March 2026, what assessment it has made of the impact of childcare costs on the ability of parents with twins and other multiple births to return to, remain in or increase their participation in the workforce, and whether it will publish the evidence informing that assessment.
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