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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

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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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. Session 6: 13 May 2021 to 8 April 2026
  7. Current session: 14 May 2026 to 27 August 2026
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Question reference: S5O-00111

  • Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2016
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 September 2016

To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that its proposals on changes to council tax comply with its treaty obligations under the European Charter of Local Self-Government.

Question reference: S5F-00125

  • Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 27 June 2016
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 June 2016

To ask the First Minister when the Cabinet will next meet.

Question reference: S5O-00036

  • Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 June 2016
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with the EIS regarding its ballot for industrial action.

Question reference: S5F-00036

  • Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2016
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 June 2016

To ask the First Minister when the Cabinet will next meet.

Question reference: S5F-00015

  • Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 May 2016
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 June 2016

To ask the First Minister when the Cabinet will next meet.

Question reference: S4F-03338

  • Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 21 March 2016
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 March 2016

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's position is on the modernisation of the Land Settlement (Scotland) Act 1919.

Question reference: S4F-03263

  • Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 22 February 2016
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 February 2016

To ask the First Minister what discussions the Scottish Government has had about the relationship between Prestwick airport and The Trump Organization.

Question reference: S4O-05255

  • Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 January 2016
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 January 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what the implications for Scotland are of the Paris agreement for fossil fuel production and consumption.

Question reference: S4F-03144

  • Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 January 2016
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 January 2016

To ask the First Minister what impact the introduction of an upper band of the minimum wage for workers over 25 will have on pay inequality and in-work poverty in Scotland.

Question reference: S4O-05177

  • Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2015
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 December 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what the implications are for skills and training of its proposed national infrastructure priority on energy efficiency.