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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 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 21 December 2025
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Question reference: S6W-42620

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 19 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 16 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-42077 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 9 December 2025, whether there are minutes taken and papers considered by the Working Group on the Supreme Court Judgement and, if so, by what date these will be published.

Question reference: S6W-42619

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 19 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 16 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-42080 by Angela Constance on 9 December 2025, whether all 21 transgender people in the prison estate are housed in the women's prison estate.

Question reference: S6W-42624

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 19 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 16 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-42082 by Angela Constance on 9 December 2025, for what reason it is not commenting on civil court proceedings, and what specifically is stopping it from doing so. 

Question reference: S6W-42623

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 19 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 16 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-42079 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 9 December 2025, and in light of reports that there is no restriction on the Scottish Ministers in relation to commenting on civil cases before the courts, for what reason the First Minister is not meeting For Women Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-42618

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 19 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 16 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, following the Supreme Court judgment that sex, for the purposes of the Equality Act 2010, is biological, whether it considers that a woman needs to complain to her employer before action is taken to follow the law.

Question reference: S6W-42616

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 19 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 16 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-42078 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 9 December 2025, by what date the review of facilities across its estate will be completed.

Question reference: S6W-42617

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 19 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 16 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-42078 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 9 December 2025, what monitoring of NHS boards is being undertaken to ensure compliance with the law following the Supreme Court judgement.

Question reference: S6W-42622

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 19 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 16 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-42077 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 9 December 2025, on what dates the Working Group on the Supreme Court Judgement has met.

Question reference: S6W-42621

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 19 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 16 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-42077 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 9 December 2025, whether it will list the membership of the Working Group on the Supreme Court Judgement.

Question reference: S6W-42644

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 14 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-42212 by Neil Gray on 5 December 2025, what data is currently captured by integration authorities that “evidences the value that effective and efficient community equipment and adaptation provision makes to the delivery of key service goals”; where this is published, and how it is communicated to all stakeholders, including service users, carers and equipment providers.