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-15288
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 6 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the implementation of recommendation 8 of the Scottish Eating Disorder Services Review, published in 2021, to improve standards of eating disorder care within primary care.
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Question reference: S6W-15332
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 6 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been convicted of a crime of animal cruelty, of any kind, in each year since 2016, and, of those, how many were given a (a) lifetime and (b) temporary ban on owning animals.
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Question reference: S6W-15368
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 6 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will outline any specific actions it is taking to reverse the reported long-term decline in the number of dairy herds, and what its most recent estimate is of the number of dairy herds.
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Question reference: S6W-15349
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 6 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how much has been held in Integrated Joint Board (IJB) reserves in each year since IJBs were established, broken down by each IJB.
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Question reference: S6W-15370
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 3 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many of its priorities under the 2022 Farming Opportunities for New Entrants (FONE) programme were met, including its priority to make available 400 hectares of publicly-owned land to new entrants.
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Question reference: S6W-15311
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 2 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS boards currently outsource services to the private provider, Healios, and which services are outsourced.
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Question reference: S6W-15348
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 2 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how much has been held in local authority reserves in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S6W-15310
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 2 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the outsourcing of mental health services to private companies.
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Question reference: S6W-15320
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 1 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how Marine Scotland’s guidance for a European Protected Species licence in relation to the use of acoustic deterrent devices (a) accounts for the reported uneven distribution of cetaceans across the seabed and (b) has taken recent academic research on cetacean distribution into account.
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Question reference: S6W-15372
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 1 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its progress towards implementing the recommendations of the June 2021 report to the Scottish Government, Bringing Home the Bacon: Reducing Greenhouse Gas Emissions from the Scottish Pig Sector.