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-22858
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 23 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what contingency plans are in place to ensure that the 2.62 million households and 159,219 business premises that are supplied by Scottish Water will be safe during the current industrial action.
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Question reference: S6W-22866
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 23 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the income differential between the lowest and the highest paid workers in Scottish Water has been in each of the last five financial years.
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Question reference: S6W-22864
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 23 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the full-time equivalent staffing levels in Scottish Water have been in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S6W-22865
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 10 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 23 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the reported increasing use of private contractors to deliver services that had previously been undertaken in-house by Scottish Water employees.
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Question reference: S6W-22770
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 21 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what input it has made to the Infected Blood Inquiry to date.
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Question reference: S6W-22772
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 21 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the total cost was of the public inquiry into hepatitis C and HIV infection acquired from NHS treatment in Scotland with contaminated blood and blood products, and what percentage of this was spent on legal fees.
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Question reference: S6W-22771
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 21 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when it anticipates the Scottish Hospitals Inquiry, which is investigating the construction of the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital, Glasgow, and the Royal Hospital for Children and Young People, and Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Edinburgh, is likely to deliver its findings.
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Question reference: S6W-22619
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 15 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has tabled any formal proposals to the recognised trade unions regarding an extension of driver-only operation on the ScotRail network.
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Question reference: S6W-22621
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 10 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to fulfil the 2016 agreement between ScotRail and the RMT union that there would be a guaranteed safety critical conductor on every new electrified train.
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Question reference: S6W-22620
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 10 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to introduce driver-only or driver-controlled operation on any newly electrified routes, including the (a) Barrhead, (b) East Kilbride and (c) Kilmarnock routes.