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: S6W-39790
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 August 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 2 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made providing additional funding to NHS dental practices in order for more people to be registered with them.
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Question reference: S6W-39751
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 August 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 2 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what strategic objectives were used to justify the purchase of the Glen Prosen estate.
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Question reference: S6W-39757
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 August 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 2 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has undertaken of the causes of the reported loss of more than 13,000 oil and gas jobs in the last 12 months.
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Question reference: S6W-39750
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 August 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 2 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will suspend any further decisions on the Flamingo Land Lomond Banks development until all reported concerns about potential document falsification are resolved.
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Question reference: S6W-39783
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 August 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 2 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that SEPA's indicative pay offer does not meet the Scottish Government minimum increase policy of 3%, and by what date SEPA will confirm its proposed pay increase for 2025.
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Question reference: S6W-39732
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 August 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 2 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on how many Petroineos workers who were made redundant as a result of the closure of the Grangemouth refinery have, to date, subsequently been offered new employment by Ineos and other firms operating within the Grangemouth petrochemical industrial cluster.
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Question reference: S6W-39727
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 August 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 2 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, for the purpose of Freedom of Information, which public body is considered to "hold" information relating to the direct staffing and remuneration costs associated with the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, if not the Scottish Government itself.
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Question reference: S6W-39787
- Asked by: Clare Haughey, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 August 2025
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answer expected on 2 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many emergency mental health assessment units are operational (a) nationally and (b) in each NHS board.
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Question reference: S6W-39789
- Asked by: Clare Haughey, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish National Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 August 2025
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answer expected on 2 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many people in each (a) local authority and (b) NHS board area have accessed distress brief intervention services in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S6W-39740
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 August 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 2 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recent introduction of mandatory remote electronic monitoring (REM) for scallop fishing vessels, what the current levels of compliance are among these vessels.
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