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-05127
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 November 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 November 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that patients awaiting urgent gynaecology appointments are regularly updated about their expected waiting times and are informed of the appropriate route to seek reassessment if their symptoms worsen.
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Question reference: S7W-05145
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 November 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 November 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will use its funding powers under section 183 of the Broadcasting Act 1990 to deliver a multi-year, inflation-adjusted core funding settlement to support MG ALBA’s Lèirsinn 2030 strategy.
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Question reference: S7W-05144
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 November 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 November 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the cost of extending eligibility for the National Concessionary Travel Scheme to all further and higher education students in Scotland, regardless of age, whether it will introduce such an extension during the current parliamentary session, and, if not, what alternative support it will provide to ensure that transport costs do not prevent students from accessing further and higher education, including work placements.
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Question reference: S7W-05122
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 November 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 November 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what support is available to patients who are unable to work because of a gynaecological condition and are facing prolonged waits for assessment or treatment, particularly where such delays are causing financial hardship.
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Question reference: S7W-05149
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 November 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 November 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the funding required to deliver MG ALBA’s Lèirsinn 2030 strategy.
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Question reference: S7W-05072
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 November 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 November 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the potential impact on (a) pupil attainment and (b) national attendance rates of reducing the number of pupil school days from 190 to 188 through the use of additional in-service days in the 2026-27 academic year.
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Question reference: S7W-05156
- Asked by: Amanda Bland, MSP for Central Scot and Lothians West, Independent
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 November 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 November 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact on children with hearing loss in West Lothian and their families of having to travel to the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People in Edinburgh for routine paediatric audiology services, including hearing aid maintenance, hearing aid adjustments and ear mould impressions, and what evidence has informed that assessment.
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Question reference: S7W-05141
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 November 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 November 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact that the proposed withdrawal of funding for Marie Curie's Fast Track Service will have on access to specialist palliative and end-of-life care in Glasgow, particularly for terminally ill people in deprived communities, their families and unpaid carers, and what steps it will take to prevent existing inequalities in access to care from widening.
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Question reference: S7W-05136
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scot and Lothians West, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 November 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 November 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to monitor the outcomes of the STRIDE-RCT blood test trial in England, and how it will ensure that any relevant findings are recorded and considered with a view to progressing early diagnosis opportunities in Scotland's GP practices.
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Question reference: S7W-05080
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 November 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 November 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether local authorities seeking approval for additional in-service days will be required to consult parents, carers, Parent Councils and school communities and, if so, whether evidence of such consultation will be required as part of the approval process.
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