Questions and answers
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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Question reference: S7W-00305
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government when it will introduce a reformed National Performance Framework, in light of it pausing and abandoning its previously proposed national outcomes in 2025 after a full statutory review.
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Question reference: S7W-00306
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what the cost was of the National Performance Framework review process that was undertaken during the previous parliamentary session, the outcomes of which were not implemented.
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Question reference: S7W-00310
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its commitment to reduce the public sector workforce, for what reason the devolved civil service headcount increased in the year to December 2025.
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Question reference: S7W-00307
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government how the proposed Public Service Renewal Bill will differ from the public body reduction already committed to in its Public Service Reform Strategy of June 2025.
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Question reference: S7W-00301
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the Fiscal Sustainability Delivery Plan, what proportion of the identified £5 billion fiscal gap has been closed by measures announced to date, broken down by year.
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Question reference: S7W-00308
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Auditor General's reported assessment that an approach to public sector reform focused purely on controlling workforce numbers will not balance the public finances.
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Question reference: S7W-00296
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Scottish National Party’s 2026 manifesto commitment to enact a statutory price cap on essential food items in shops, what consideration it has given to the suggestion by the Scottish Retail Consortium that it should instead consider pausing or delaying the introduction of devolved regulatory costs affecting food retailers.
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Question reference: S7W-00309
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of Audit Scotland's report finding that such data was lacking for over 100 of these, whether it now holds adequate data on the size, cost and skillset of the workforce in its public bodies,
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Question reference: S7W-00304
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government how many public bodies it plans to abolish or merge through the measures to be proposed in the Public Service Renewal Bill.
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Question reference: S7W-00297
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Scottish National Party’s 2026 manifesto commitment to enact a statutory price cap on essential food items in shops, whether it plans to produce detailed guidance for grocery retailers in advance of any cap coming into effect.
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