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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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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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 6 February 2025
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Question reference: S6W-32381

  • Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 16 December 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 19 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports that it has frozen the funding for the national mission to reduce drug-related deaths and harms at £60 million in its draft Budget 2025-26, and that this represents a real-terms reduction, which rehabilitation services in the Glasgow region will be impacted by this.

Question reference: S6W-32380

  • Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 16 December 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 19 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it has reportedly decided to freeze the funding for the national mission to reduce drug-related deaths and harms at £60 million in its draft Budget 2025-26.

Question reference: S6W-32379

  • Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 16 December 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 18 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of spending allocated to the national mission to reduce drug-related deaths and harms was allocated to rehabilitation services between 2022 and 2024.

Question reference: S6W-31158

  • Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 December 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to educate young people on alcohol marketing in schools.

Question reference: S6W-32014

  • Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 05 December 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 17 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how many instances there have been of the use of drones to deliver drugs to prisons since 2022 to date.

Question reference: S6W-31938

  • Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 December 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 17 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what action is being taken to prevent drug misuse deaths that have been classified as intentional self-poisonings, as set out in statistics published in 2023 by the National Records of Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-32013

  • Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 05 December 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 13 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government which specific local services in Glasgow that make decisions on commissioning and planning services for people impacted by drugs it funds.

Question reference: S6W-31525

  • Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 December 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 11 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has regarding combining the methadone substitution programme with residential rehabilitation, in light of reports that this method has a higher success rate of 29%.

Question reference: S6W-31767

  • Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 November 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Kaukab Stewart on 11 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to address the reported 19% rise in contacts relating to domestic abuse involving children in the first six months of 2024-25, according to the NSPCC.

Question reference: S6W-31937

  • Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 December 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 11 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to specifically address the misuse of opiates/opioids.