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-41630
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 17 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how Zero Waste Scotland will coordinate with enterprise agencies to avoid duplicating support for circular economy practices, as outlined in the Draft Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-41636
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 17 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how apprenticeships and vocational qualifications will be updated to include circular skills, as discussed in the Draft Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-41633
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 17 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to set (a) a timeline and (b) mandatory quotas for circular economy procurement by public bodies.
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Question reference: S6W-41632
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 17 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how it will define and measure “embedding circularity” in public sector procurement processes, as outlined in the Draft Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-41641
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 17 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will ensure that the recently launched Scottish National Building Standards Hub is equipped to provide the expertise of conservation accredited structural engineers, who are on the Conservation Accreditation Register of Engineers (CARE), to local authorities that may require such specialised advice but may not have access to it in-house, including when decisions are being made around dangerous historic buildings and the potential need for demolition works.
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Question reference: S6W-41616
- Asked by: Pam Gosal, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 17 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-40860 by Angela Constance on 21 October 2025, whether it will publish detailed statistics regarding youth perpetrated sexual offences, including non-contact crimes such as unsolicited sexual image sending for the calendar years January to December (a) 2022, (b) 2023 and (c) 2024.
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Question reference: S6W-41638
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 17 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what specific data the Circular Jobs Tracker, which is discussed in the Draft Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland, will collect; whether this will be made publicly available, and how frequently it will be updated.
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Question reference: S6W-41637
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 17 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how the Draft Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland will ensure that lifelong learning and reskilling opportunities will be made accessible to workers in industries transitioning to circular models.
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Question reference: S6W-41634
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 17 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what international best practice it examined in drawing up the Draft Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland.
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Question reference: S6T-02727
- Asked by: Jamie Halcro Johnston, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 November 2025
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 4 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how decisions on the award of offers of grants for the Future Farming Investment Scheme were made.
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