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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. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 4 September 2025
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Question reference: S6F-02447

  • Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 23 October 2023
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 October 2023

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-02423

  • Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 02 October 2023
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 October 2023

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-02399

  • Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 25 September 2023
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 September 2023

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-02372

  • Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 18 September 2023
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 September 2023

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-02349

  • Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 11 September 2023
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 September 2023

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-02315

  • Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 04 September 2023
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 September 2023

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6W-20055

  • Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Elena Whitham on 3 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S6W-18904 and S6W-18890 by Elena Whitham on 22 June and 26 June 2023 respectively, given that £431,988 was the total funding for social media, billboards, print media and radio for the "How to Save a Life" campaign, and that the £800,000 allocated for media campaigns in 2021 and 2022 on the use of naloxone has been fully spent on that campaign, whether it will provide a breakdown of how the remaining £360,012 was spent.

Question reference: S6W-20056

  • Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Elena Whitham on 2 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what research studies have been commissioned by the Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce, and whether it will provide a full breakdown of any such studies, including which organisation each study was allocated to and the costs of each study.

Question reference: S6W-20054

  • Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 July 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Elena Whitham on 2 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the archive for data, information and research for the Scottish Drug Deaths Taskforce is only available through secure gateways.

Question reference: S6W-19556

  • Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 29 June 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 12 July 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its plans to switch to electronic cattle tagging ahead of the scheduled date of 1 January 2024, and whether it can provide clarification on the status of paper passports past this date.