Skip to main content
Loading…

Chamber and committees

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.

Find out more about parliamentary questions

Filter your results Hide all filters

Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 5 July 2025
Answer status
Question type

Displaying 42862 questions Show Answers

|

Question reference: S6W-28975

  • Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 22 August 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 20 September 2024

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.

Question reference: S6W-29266

  • Asked by: Pam Gosal, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 22 August 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 20 September 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its plans to develop a Scottish Institute for Women’s Health.

Question reference: S6W-29820

  • Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 20 September 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to protect agricultural land from solar development.

Question reference: S6W-29794

  • Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 20 September 2024

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.

Question reference: S6W-29699

  • Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 09 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 20 September 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what the criteria are for patients to qualify for patient transport.

Question reference: S6W-29703

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 09 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 20 September 2024

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.

Question reference: S6W-29737

  • Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 09 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 20 September 2024

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.

Question reference: S6W-29320

  • Asked by: Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 August 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 20 September 2024

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.

Question reference: S6W-29247

  • Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 22 August 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 20 September 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) primary and (b) secondary schools it estimates have been successfully retrofitted since 2021.

Question reference: S6W-29770

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Kaukab Stewart on 20 September 2024

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.