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-00725
- Asked by: Donald MacKinnon, MSP for Na h-Eileanan an Iar, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of whether current air travel services are meeting the needs of island communities.
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Question reference: S7W-00729
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Account Commission's report, Integration Joint Boards: Finance bulletin 2024/25, which was published in February 2026, what its response is to the Commission's warning that, without radical change, the services delivered by Integration Joint Boards cannot be sustained.
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Question reference: S7W-00720
- Asked by: Emma Roddick, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration has been given to the implementation of a national escalation route for advisers, including those at Citizens Advice Scotland, to request redeterminations in Adult Disability Payment decisions.
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Question reference: S7W-00700
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government when a construction contract willl be awarded to dual the first of the planned sections of the A96 between Inverness and Nairn.
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Question reference: S7W-00691
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh North Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reported findings by Windrush Against Sewage Pollution (WASP) that SEPA requires sewage treatment works to record less sewage treatment data than its English and Welsh counterparts.
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Question reference: S7W-00708
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding its joint purchase with Fife Council of 26 homes from Torah Capital Limited and TC CAPS3 Limited across West Wemyss, Coaltown of Wemyss and Denbeath, whether its £2 million contribution to the purchase is part of a new national policy of government-funded buyouts to prevent private sector evictions, or whether it is to be considered as a one-off emergency measure.
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Question reference: S7W-00734
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration has been given to establishing an independent body to investigate complaints regarding the financial practices of adult social care providers, with a role similar to that played by the Local Government and Social Care Ombudsman in England.
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Question reference: S7W-00721
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what specific financial mechanism it has modelled as a replacement to the UK-wide Contracts for Difference scheme, and what estimate it has made of the cost to the public purse of underwriting such a mechanism to secure capital investment for future ScotWind projects.
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Question reference: S7W-00696
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government further to 2026 Scottish National Party manifesto commitment to bring Transport Scotland “back into the Scottish Government, along with the other national transport bodies”, by what date it will publish its plans to do so, and what “other national bodies” are being considered.
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Question reference: S7W-00688
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh North Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that Windrush Against Sewage Pollution (WASP) has identified evidence of dry weather sewage spills taking place at Kilmory Sewage Treatment Works (STW) and Helensburgh STW over a number of years.
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