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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

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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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 2 July 2025
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Question reference: S6W-06240

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 16 February 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many years of funding are in place to pay for the free school meals programme in its entirety, and whether this funding is sufficient to ensure that local authorities will not need to use their funding to deliver the policy.

Question reference: S6W-06013

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 11 February 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what resources it plans to invest in order to enable regional and local institutions to apply deliberative approaches to engage civic society in planning for the net zero future of their communities and places.

Question reference: S6W-06007

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 11 February 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any plans to ban the extraction of peat for horticulture.

Question reference: S6W-06001

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 11 February 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to expand the Agricultural Transformation Programme.

Question reference: S6W-06000

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 11 February 2022

To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish its vision and proposal for a new system of rural support, in conjunction with a detailed net zero roadmap for the transition of farming businesses and practices, in order to provide certainty in relation to the support and payments that will be put in place to achieve this.

Question reference: S6W-06010

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 10 February 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to oversee the expansion, restoration and sustainable management of native woodland.

Question reference: S6W-06008

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 9 February 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to accelerate the rate of peatland restoration.

Question reference: S6W-05994

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 9 February 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many employees have been trained or retrained through the North East Economic Recovery and Skills Fund.

Question reference: S6W-04561

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 22 November 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 9 February 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what meetings the First Minister has had with the leader of Glasgow City Council in 2021.

Question reference: S6W-05997

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 8 February 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what the average GP-to-patient ratio has been in each of the last 10 years.