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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 18 February 2026
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Question reference: S5W-29771

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 June 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2020

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will introduce local COVID-19 lockdowns in areas where it believes that the R rate might go above 1.

Question reference: S5W-30034

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 June 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 10 July 2020

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication of the 2019 decision paper, Asset Replacement, and the 2020 decision paper, Prospects for Prices, by the Water Industry Commission for Scotland, by how much expenditure investment and asset maintenance will have grown between the 2015-21 price control period and that envisaged at the higher level for (a) 2021-27 period and (b) 2021-40.

Question reference: S5W-29782

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 June 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how many care home residents have received COVID-19 tests since it announced the expansion of testing, whether they are symptomatic or not.

Question reference: S5W-29356

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2020

To ask the Scottish Government which laboratories are being used to analyse COVID-19 test results.

Question reference: S5W-29355

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2020

To ask the Scottish Government where COVID-19 testing is being carried out.

Question reference: S5W-29543

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 01 June 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2020

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-28665 by Jeane Freeman on 18 May 2020, how many people were discharged from hospital to a care home in (a) March, (b) April and (c) May 2020, also broken down by how many were tested for COVID-19.

Question reference: S5W-28443

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 16 April 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 July 2020

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-27952 by Jeane Freeman on 15 April 2020, how many samples have been taken each week; what this confirms about prevalence, and when it will publish prevalence data.

Question reference: S5W-29241

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 May 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 July 2020

To ask the Scottish Government how many tests for COVID-19 have been carried out on people with (a) learning disabilities and (b) other support needs who are resident in care homes.

Question reference: S5W-30032

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 June 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 2 July 2020

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Water Industry Commission for Scotland has (a) played a leadership role in developing the framework for future investment requirements for the future of the water industry within the Strategic Review of Charges 2021/27 and (b) provided analysis and papers on potential future investment requirements and targets to any working groups of stakeholders or others and, if so, whether it will publish these papers.

Question reference: S5W-30024

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 June 2020
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 2 July 2020

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication of the 2020 decision paper, Prospects for Prices, by the Water Industry Commission for Scotland, whether it is aware of the documentary source of the references made to the work of JASPERS and UKWIR, and whether it will publish any such documentary sources.