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-01458
- Asked by: Helen McDade, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 30 July 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that newly qualified children's and young people's nurses, as a small and specialist workforce, are offered posts commensurate with the level of public investment made in their training.
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Question reference: S7W-01481
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 30 July 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to introducing statutory welfare standards for decapod crustaceans in sectors that currently operate under voluntary guidance.
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Question reference: S7W-01492
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 30 July 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to review land reform legislation during the current parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S7W-01485
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 30 July 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to introducing compulsory sale order powers for sites that have been consistently left vacant and derelict in (a) cities, (b) towns and (c) rural areas.
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Question reference: S7W-01475
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 30 July 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with industry, scientific and animal welfare stakeholders regarding the development of welfare standards for the humane handling and slaughter of decapod crustaceans.
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Question reference: S7W-01501
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 30 July 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the commitment in Scottish National Party’s 2026 manifesto to enact a statutory price cap on essential food items, what discussions it has had with Local Authority Trading Standards (LATS) regarding the proposal.
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Question reference: S7W-01443
- Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 30 July 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide information on the funding it has provided to support the provision of a landing slot for flights from Dundee Airport at (a) London Heathrow Airport and (b) London City Airport, including in which financial years such funding was provided.
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Question reference: S7W-01479
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 30 July 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to develop statutory codes of practice relating to the welfare of decapod crustaceans in (a) commercial fishery (b) aquaculture, (c) distribution or (d) retail settings.
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Question reference: S7W-01464
- Asked by: Helen McDade, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 30 July 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of a combined cost of £425 million for bank and agency nursing and midwifery staffing in 2025-26, equivalent to 7,320 whole-time-equivalent staff, and in the context of appointable newly qualified nurses being unable to secure permanent posts, what assessment it has made of the value for money of expenditure on supplementary staffing.
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Question reference: S7W-01442
- Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 30 July 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what public funding has been provided to Dundee Airport, broken down by (a) amount and (b) purpose, in each of the last seven years.
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