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
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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Question reference: S6W-26838
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 April 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 10 May 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a list of all funding streams that are being used, or could be used, to fund anti-racist education initiatives.
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Question reference: S6O-03316
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 April 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what the Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy, Net Zero and Energy meant by her reported comments to the Ferguson Marine workforce on 9 April 2024, that the Scottish Government will “stand with you long into the future”.
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Question reference: S6O-03227
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the BBC Scotland Disclosure programme, Surviving Domestic Abuse, which was broadcast on 11 March.
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Question reference: S6T-01858
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 March 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that Creative Scotland has awarded £85,000 to the project Rein, in light of concerns about its explicit content.
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Question reference: S6W-25946
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 01 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 11 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason section (a) 9 and (b) 10 of the Civil Litigation (Expenses and Group Proceedings) (Scotland) Act 2018 is not in force.
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Question reference: S6O-03213
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 March 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the creation of a national online support platform to expand music learning for children and young people in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-24888
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 February 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 6 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding its work on international engagement, what recent contact it has had with the Turkish government, including any requests for meetings from either side, and what plans there are for representatives of the two governments to meet.
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Question reference: S6W-25477
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 February 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 1 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-23936 by Fiona Hyslop on 10 January 2024, notwithstanding that it has not yet made a decision on the procurement route, whether it has conducted any assessment of the estimated cost difference between the direct award of a contract and a competitive tendering process; when it expects the decision to be made on the procurement route, and when it expects to update the Parliament on the decision.
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Question reference: S6O-03149
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 February 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with BT Group/EE regarding the proposed closure of its Greenock call centre.
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Question reference: S6W-24736
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 2 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what the cost has been of conducting the latest Scottish Household Survey (SHS), and how much it cost to conduct the SHS in each of the last 10 years.