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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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Question reference: S6W-42685

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 15 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what recommendations it has made regarding ratings for gas boilers versus electric heaters on EPC reports.

Question reference: S6W-42649

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 15 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the evidence given by the Cabinet Secretary for Justice and Home Affairs to the Education, Children and Young People Committee on 17 December 2025, in which the Cabinet Secretary commented that she had made a "private call" to a person with no officials present, stating that she subsequently made a note of this on the basis that “everything needs to be on the record”, whether it will confirm how many other similar such calls have been made by each minister since May 2021; what the circumstances of each call was, and what subsequent note of the call was recorded by the minister.

Question reference: S6W-42650

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 December 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 14 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the establishment of an independent national whistleblowing office for education and children’s services.

Question reference: S6W-42655

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 December 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 14 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the Student Awards Agency Scotland regarding the recent audit of student loans by the agency, and what its position is on any additional loan balance adjustments discovered as a result of the audit being added to people’s loans retrospectively, including in cases where it was believed that the loan had been paid off.

Question reference: S6O-05333

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 December 2025
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the justice secretary has had with ministerial colleagues regarding any plans to deliver campus police officers across all schools.

Question reference: S6W-42591

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 15 December 2025
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 17 December 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many men in Scotland have received BRCA gene tests in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S6W-42310

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 December 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how much has been spent on breakfast provision from Public Equity Funding (PEF) since the policy was established in 2017.

Specific data on breakfast provision expenditure from Pupil Equity Funding in schools is not held centrally.

Since Pupil Equity Funding’s introduction in 2017-18, over £1 billion has been allocated to Scotland’s schools, empowering headteachers to take the best approaches that suit the needs of their pupils, including using it to support breakfast clubs, to improve readiness to learn and help close the poverty-related attainment gap.

Across the country we continue to trust and empower Scotland's headteachers to use this extra funding to support their pupils - whether through extra support staff, family link workers or through breakfast provision, for example. The PEF Report, published in May, highlights some of the ways Headteachers are investing Pupil Equity Funding to improve outcomes for children impacted by poverty. Within this report there are various examples of schools using PEF to support a breakfast club, such as Easter Carmuirs Primary School’s “Breakfast for All” programme, as well as Castlemilk High School’s work on studying during breakfast clubs.

We are also investing £3 million to expand and enhance breakfast club provision across Scotland through our Bright Start Breakfasts fund – which supports 20,000 children across 490 breakfast clubs to get a healthy start to their day and put more money in family’s pockets by delivering real savings.

Question reference: S6W-42311

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 December 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many co-ordinated support plans have been made in each local authority, in each year since their introduction.

Question reference: S6W-42312

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 December 2025
Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 16 December 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the theme of Crohn's and Colitis Awareness Week 2025, "How it Feels", how it plans to shed light on the serious and life-changing nature of the conditions, in order to transform understanding in schools and to ensure that students are better supported to complete their education.

The Scottish Government welcomes the theme of Crohn's and Colitis Awareness Week 2025, “How it feels,” and values the work of charities like Crohn’s and Colitis UK in highlighting the challenges of managing often invisible symptoms.

The Scottish Government recognises that the health of children can have a significant impact on their education and they may require an individual healthcare plan to identify the level and type of support that will be needed to meet their healthcare needs whilst attending school. Where a child or young person has been diagnosed with Crohn’s or Colitis, NHS boards, education authorities and schools should work collaboratively to ensure that all staff receive an appropriate level of training in order to understand and respond to both the educational and health needs of any affected children and young people for whom they are responsible.

Furthermore, where a child or young person is unable to attend school for a prolonged period due to ill health then schools and local authorities have a statutory duty to continue to educate them to their fullest potential and make special arrangements for affected pupils to receive education elsewhere than at school.

These arrangements are likely to apply when a child or young person is absent from school for a prolonged period due to the impacts of either Crohn’s or Colitis upon their health. Further information is available within our guidance on education of children and young people unable to attend school sue to ill health which is available through the following web link: Education of children unable to attend school due to ill health: guidance - gov.scot.

Question reference: S6W-42592

Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 15 December 2025
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the (a) allocated budget and (b) actual outturn expenditure for the Young Patients Family Fund in each financial year since its introduction.