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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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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 11 February 2025
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Question reference: S6W-32271

  • Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 12 December 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 6 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comments by the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport during the members' business debate on motion S6M-14427 (Reversal of £10 Million Funding for Changing Places Toilets) on 11 December 2024, whether it plans to publish the draft criteria for the planned Changing Places Toilet Fund, and, if so, when.

Question reference: S6W-32272

  • Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 12 December 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 6 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comments by the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport during the members' business debate on motion S6M-14427 (Reversal of £10 Million Funding for Changing Places Toilets) on 11 December 2024, whether it will provide the draft criteria for the planned Changing Places Toilet Fund to MSPs, and, if so, when.

Question reference: S6W-32273

  • Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 12 December 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 6 January 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comments by the Minister for Social Care, Mental Wellbeing and Sport during the members' business debate on motion S6M-14427 (Reversal of £10 Million Funding for Changing Places Toilets) on 11 December 2024, by what date in the 2025-26 financial year it hopes to have opened the Changing Places Toilet Fund for funding applications.

Question reference: S6W-32458

  • Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 December 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 23 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what actions are being taken to reduce waiting times for gynaecological procedures.

Question reference: S6W-31789

  • Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 12 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what support it has provided to local authorities for the provision of school (a) libraries and (b) librarians in the current financial year, and in each year since 2021.

Question reference: S6O-04145

  • Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 December 2024
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what recent engagement its ministers have had with Disabled People's Organisations to discuss any concerns of disabled people.

Question reference: S6W-31788

  • Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 November 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 11 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Great School Libraries campaign to bring libraries and access to librarians back to every school in the UK, as it relates to Scotland. 

Question reference: S6W-31785

  • Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 November 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 10 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what action it (a) can take and (b) is taking to support local authorities to ensure that licensed taxi drivers comply with the Equality Act 2010 in relation to refusing or attempting to refuse to carry visually impaired people due to them travelling with their guide dog.

Question reference: S6O-04103

  • Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 December 2024
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to publish the next Medium-Term Financial Strategy.

Question reference: S6O-04046

  • Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 21 November 2024

    Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 November 2024

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it will consult MSP staff trade unions before deciding on uprating the Staff Cost Provision in the 2025-26 financial year.