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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 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 17 December 2025
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Question reference: S6W-21517

  • Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 September 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Elena Whitham on 29 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish a paper on improving operational practice to support better health outcomes for people with alcohol problems.

Question reference: S6W-21518

  • Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 September 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Elena Whitham on 29 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will establish and evaluate tests of change to improve access to alcohol treatment through the justice system.

Question reference: S6W-21358

  • Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 14 September 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 29 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether Transport Scotland’s £4 million contract with Turner and Townsend for project and programme management support for the CHFS3 project requires the consultant to consider (a) temporary and (b) permanent direct award of the next contract for Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services to CalMac.

Question reference: S6W-21394

  • Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 14 September 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 29 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it can provide a list of the total payments made from the public purse to Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP for consultancy work on the (a) design and (b) tender of the (i) Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services (CHFS) 1 and (ii) CHFS2 contract.

Question reference: S6W-21379

  • Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 14 September 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 29 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether its Local Authority Digital Office has provided, or plans to provide, expertise and support to the development of a replacement student teacher placement system.

Question reference: S6W-21377

  • Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 14 September 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Natalie Don on 29 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it has had with local authorities, since 2021, regarding promotion and support to improve uptake of its early learning and childcare offer to eligible children, and what steps have been taken by (a) it and (b) individual local authorities to target support.

Question reference: S6W-21340

  • Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 14 September 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 29 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made in improving information gathering for psychological therapies waiting times, as set out on page 2 of its report, Psychological Therapies Waiting Times in NHS Scotland, which was published on 6 June 2023.

Question reference: S6W-21385

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 14 September 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 29 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, in advance of its refreshed tobacco control action plan being published in autumn 2023, whether Public Health Scotland will be commissioned to update analysis on the estimated effects of reduced smoking prevalence on the three outcomes of smoking-attributable deaths, smoking-attributable hospital admissions and smoking-attributable NHS costs.

Question reference: S6W-21393

  • Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 14 September 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 29 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it can provide a list of the total payments made from the public purse to Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP for consultancy work on the (a) design and (b) tender of the (i) Northern Isles Ferry Service passenger specifications, (ii) Northern Isles Ferry Services freight specifications and (iii) Gourock to Dunoon contracts.

Question reference: S6W-21674

  • Asked by: Roz McCall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 22 September 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 29 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the Parental Transition Fund aimed at tackling any financial barriers that parents face in entering the labour market.