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.
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To ask the Scottish Government whether any companies on the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights database of companies involved in certain activities relating to settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory will be prevented from securing public contracts in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its plans to develop a Scottish Institute for Women’s Health.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to protect agricultural land from solar development.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its commitment in the Programme for Government 2024-25 to consult on further protection measures for Marine Protected Areas and Priority Marine Features, whether it will consult on fisheries management measures for both the remaining Marine Protected Areas and Priority Marine Features before the end of 2024.
To ask the Scottish Government what the criteria are for patients to qualify for patient transport.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it sought advice from the Climate Change Committee before reducing Net Zero and Energy funding by £23.4 million.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-29060 by Angus Robertson on 26 August 2024, whether an official from the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) was present at the meeting, as per the established protocol that ministerial meetings have a FCDO official present.
To ask the Scottish Government whether local authorities, including the City of Edinburgh Council, which purchase (a) owner-occupier and (b) private tenancy properties can flip these into Scottish Secure Tenancy Agreements under existing legislation.
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools it estimates have been successfully retrofitted since 2021.
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to act upon the reported recommendations made in the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination report, following the combined 24th and 26th periodic reports of the UK and Northern Ireland, including that the (a) Scottish Government engage with stakeholders and members of the Irish community to develop measures to address any ethnic and religious prejudice in Scotland and (b) devolved governments systematically collect and publish comparable statistics on the enjoyment of rights by members of ethnic minorities in all fields of life.