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-26552
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 March 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 26 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government when it expects to introduce a bill on ending conversion practices.
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Question reference: S6W-26177
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 28 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the connections between Peterhead Power Station and the Scottish Cluster in relation to enabling carbon capture.
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Question reference: S6W-26163
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 28 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to help reduce the ethnicity pay gap.
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Question reference: S6W-26254
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 27 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its proposed Community Wealth Building Bill.
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Question reference: S6W-26178
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 27 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of the scientific advice that it has received regarding (a) blue hydrogen technology, (b) green hydrogen technology and (c) carbon capture technology.
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Question reference: S6W-26223
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 27 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports that patient and staff data could have been compromised in the cyber attack on NHS Dumfries and Galloway, what support and advice has been offered to NHS boards and public bodies, including NHS (a) Lanarkshire and (b) Forth Valley.
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Question reference: S6W-26222
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 27 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had regarding the potential impact in Scotland of the UK Government's plans to develop an early warning system to detect synthetic opioids and emerging drugs, which will reportedly track drug presence in real-time through wastewater testing and overdose reports, use and provide data to the UN commission’s own early warning system, and aim to prevent a fentanyl crisis such as that experienced in the USA.
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Question reference: S6W-26500
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 March 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 24 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what action is being taken in response to the reported statistics that 41% of parents have had to rely on some form of debt or withdraw money from their savings to pay for childcare.
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Question reference: S6W-26501
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 March 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 24 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to protect people and properties, in light of SEPA's recently reported warning that around 400,000 homes are at major risk of flooding within 50 years due to climate change, which is an increase of 40%.
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Question reference: S6W-26499
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 March 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 24 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what action is being taken in response to the reported statistics that 42% of parents are spending more than a quarter of their entire household income on childcare.