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-39636
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 31 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many homes have been approved by local authorities in each year since the period considered by the Competition and Markets Authority, which considered the number of approvals to be on average 29,000 per year to the end of 2022.
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Question reference: S6W-39665
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 31 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how it will address the reported issue of police pensions whose deadlines have been breached four times in respect of their remedial service statement (RSS).
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Question reference: S6W-39685
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 31 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what new evidence it has considered in reaffirming its reported opposition to nuclear energy generation.
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Question reference: S6W-39606
- Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 31 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government when its ministers last met with (a) the UK and Ireland Fuel Distributors Association, (b) Liquid Gas UK, (c) major suppliers of heating oil, (d) major suppliers of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) and (e) consumer-advice bodies, to discuss the rural off-gas-grid heating market, and what issues were discussed on each occasion.
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Question reference: S6W-39667
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 31 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Lancet Commission’s research on liver cancer, and what action it plans to take in light of the research’s findings that three-in-five liver cancer cases could be prevented by reducing alcohol consumption and obesity, and by increasing uptake of the hepatitis vaccine.
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Question reference: S6W-39678
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 31 July 2025
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will ensure that secondary school pupils will be taught, during education on sex and relationships, that strangulation is illegal even if it does not cause any visible injury, as is the case in England under its new relationships, sex and health education guidance.
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Question reference: S6W-39604
- Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 31 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact on levels of fuel poverty in rural communities of the recent price trends of (a) heating oil and (b) liquefied petroleum gas (LPG), and what measures it has identified to mitigate any such impact.
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Question reference: S6W-39672
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 31 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what measures are being taken to ensure the accessibility of train services for individuals with mobility issues, specifically later evening and night time services.
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Question reference: S6W-39674
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Independent
- Date lodged: Thursday, 31 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what risk assessments have been carried out on the possible effects on patients if there is any further removal of NHS specialist treatments for chronic pain services.
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Question reference: S6W-39670
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 31 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to adopt the 2022 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) Guideline regarding the diagnosis of endometriosis in adolescents.
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