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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of any increase in the total cost of its civil service since 2016 is accounted for by increases in (a) headcount and (b) salary levels.
To ask the Scottish Government how many public sector body board members currently hold appointments with more than one public sector body and, for each such board member, what the total amount is that they receive annually as a combined remuneration.
To ask the Scottish Government how the decision was reached to disband its constitutional futures division.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-36742 by Paul MacLennan on 25 April 2025, for what reason it does not require Registered Social Landlords to consider immigration status when allocating social housing.
To ask the Scottish Government what productivity measures it will introduce alongside the NHS pay deal.
To ask the Scottish Government whether the NHS pay deal will affect resource allocation to frontline services.
To ask the Scottish Government what funding it has provided (a) directly and (b) indirectly to Refugee Festival Scotland in each of the last five years.
To ask the Scottish Government how many civil servants it currently employs, broken down by directorate, and how this compares with staffing levels in 2016.
To ask the Scottish Government which ministers were involved in taking the decision to disband its constitutional futures division.
To ask the Scottish Government whether the productivity of civil servants working remotely has been formally evaluated.