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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

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Question reference: S6T-02277

Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 13 January 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to prevent the spread of avian influenza, following the outbreak in Kirriemuir.

Question reference: S6F-03699

Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 January 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 January 2025

To ask the First Minister, in light of the rise in the number of people under 50 being diagnosed with bowel cancer, what proposals the Scottish Government has to extend the national bowel screening programme to those under 50 years old.

Question reference: S6F-03720

Asked by: Jackie Dunbar, MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 January 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 January 2025

To ask the First Minister what assessment the Scottish Government has made of the potential economic impact of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners' reported £800 million investment in battery energy storage sites in Scotland.

Question reference: S6F-03721

Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 13 January 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 January 2025

To ask the First Minister how the Scottish Government is responding to reports that 182 sexual assaults, including rapes, have taken place in hospitals in the last five years.

Question reference: S6F-03694

Asked by: Russell Findlay, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 January 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 January 2025

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-03696

Asked by: Lorna Slater, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 13 January 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 January 2025

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-03695

Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 13 January 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 January 2025

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6W-32623

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 20 December 2024
Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 13 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how much was spent on staff (a) salaries and (b) travel expenses at each of its international offices in the last year.

The following table presents totals for (a) salaries, including overseas allowances, and (b) travel expenses for 2023-24.

International Office	(a) Salary Costs	(b) Travel Costs
China	£206,338	£10,500
United States	£281,144	£29,000
Canada	£195,802	£47,000
France	£239,456	£10,700
Nordics	£277,666	£8,900
Scotland House Brussels	£1,191,266	£30,300
Ireland	£228,481	£5,000
Germany	£260,067	£11,700
Scotland House London	£665,894	£13,200

The international network offices outside the UK comprise country-based staff (CBS) in addition to UK-Based diplomatic staff. These figures contains additional non-salary costs for CBS, who are employed by FCDO, which are not disaggregated when recharged to the Scottish Government.

Question reference: S6W-32620

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 20 December 2024
Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 13 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has assessed the impact of closing some international offices on Scotland’s ability to promote exports and attract investment.

Question reference: S6W-30390

Asked by: Fulton MacGregor, MSP for Coatbridge and Chryston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 19 December 2024
Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what work it has carried out with Local Authority Trading Standards (LATS) to ensure that the public can have a high level of confidence in LATS reports.

The Scottish Government is a member of the Trading Standards Policy and Coordination Group. This Group is coordinated by the Convention of Scottish Local Authorities (COSLA) as the representative organisation for local government in Scotland. The Group seek to provide:

strategic leadership of the trading standards function across Scotland;
and effective co-ordination of trading standards priorities between local and national government and recruitment and retention of trading standards staff.