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
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Question reference: S6W-37507
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 May 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the commitment in its Programme for Government 2025-26 to commission Enquire, the national advice and information service on additional support for learning, to improve the communication of the key information that different audiences need to meet the needs of children with additional support needs, what (a) key information and (b) audiences this work will include.
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Question reference: S6W-37506
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 May 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government who will be invited to the data summit on additional support for learning, as announced in its Programme for Government 2025-26.
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Question reference: S6W-37523
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 May 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has provided to the Scottish National Investment Bank in the current parliamentary session to date, and how much it estimates it will have provided by the end of the current parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S6W-37449
- Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 May 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-15187 by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 March 2023, whether it will provide (a) updated figures on average gross revenue expenditure in Scotland per (i) pre-school registration, (ii) primary school pupil and (iii) secondary school pupil and (b) information on allocations (accounting for teaching and tuition fees funding) per (i) college and (ii) university place, in each year from 2012-13 to 2023-24 inclusive, in (A) cash terms and (B) real terms for 2024-25 prices, using HM Treasury GDP Deflator.
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Question reference: S6W-37519
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 May 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how it has adjusted income tax rates and bands since the start of the current parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S6W-37521
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 May 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how much it (a) spent in Session 5, (b) has spent in the current parliamentary session to date and (c) estimates it will spend in Session 6 on (i) supporting new jobs and (ii) reskilling people for the jobs of the future.
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Question reference: S6W-37448
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 May 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-36651 by Kate Forbes on 30 April 2025, whether it will provide further details and updated information on how it evaluates whether its grant conditions are successful in achieving diversification away from arms manufacturing.
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Question reference: S6W-37430
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 May 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, whether it will provide the (a) office seating capacity and (b) annual running cost of each building (i) 4 Atlantic Quay (Glasgow), (ii) 5 Atlantic Quay (Glasgow), (iii) Bothwell House (Hamilton), (iv) Cadzow Court (Hamilton), (v) Compass House (Dundee), (vi) Denholm House (Livingston), (vii) Alexander Fleming House (Elgin), (viii) Hadrian House (Falkirk), (ix) Tankerness Lane (Kirkwall), (x) Longman House (Inverness) (xi) Marine Scotland (Eyemouth), (xii) Marine Scotland (Peterhead) and (xiii) St Andrews House (Edinburgh).
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Question reference: S6W-37522
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 May 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has established a green jobs fund; if so, how much it has allocated to it, and which projects it will invest in, and, if not, whether it plans to do so.
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Question reference: S6W-37524
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 May 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 May 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on infrastructure in the current parliamentary session to date, and how much it estimates it will have spent by the end of the current parliamentary session.
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