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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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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
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Question reference: S5O-03664

  • Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 October 2019
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 October 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how many local authority and affordable houses have been delivered in the Kirkcaldy constituency since 2012.

Question reference: S5O-03603

  • Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2019
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 October 2019

To ask the Scottish Government when it expects to receive the £160 million in convergence funding.

Question reference: S5O-03572

  • Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 September 2019
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how many families in Scotland have been denied entitlement to benefits due to the two-child limit.

Question reference: S5O-03507

  • Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2019
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 September 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that it considers and takes action on recommendations made by the Citizens’ Assembly of Scotland when it concludes its deliberations in April 2020.

Question reference: S5O-03434

  • Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 June 2019
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 June 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Fife Council on the action that it is taking to regenerate town centres across Fife.

Question reference: S5O-03414

  • Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 June 2019
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 June 2019

To ask the Scottish Government when beauticians, hairdressers and others who provide aesthetic procedures will be regulated in the same way as medically-qualified practitioners.

Question reference: S5O-03377

  • Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 June 2019
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 June 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made in implementing its 2018-19 legislative programme.

Question reference: S5O-03228

  • Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2019
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government when it last met representatives of the food and drink sector and what was discussed.

Question reference: S5O-03134

  • Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 April 2019
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 April 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the Electoral Commission regarding planning in Scotland for possible European Parliament elections in May 2019.

Question reference: S5W-22544

  • Asked by: David Torrance, MSP for Kirkcaldy, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 04 April 2019
  • Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 April 2019

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its response to the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) report on the inquiry into Tayside NHS Board Endowment Funds, which was published on 1 February 2019.