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-40279
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what criteria it uses to determine whether to commission an independent review of local maternity services.
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Question reference: S6W-40323
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that all patients with brain tumours have equal access to drug treatments, regardless of where they live.
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Question reference: S6W-40335
- Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to extending the definition of positive destinations for school leavers to include self-employed in addition to higher education, further education, employment, training, personal skills development and voluntary work.
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Question reference: S6W-40329
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what support it provides to colleges in relation to financial sustainability.
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Question reference: S6W-40274
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made on the impact on Scotland's economy of the report by Offshore Energy UK suggesting that, without replacing the Energy Profits Levy in the next year with a profits-based mechanism to encourage investment and output, North Sea oil and gas production could disappear “within years, not decades”.
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Question reference: S6W-40296
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has made of public confidence in the curriculum for excellence, and how it plans to restore any reduction in confidence.
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Question reference: S6W-40334
- Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Reform UK
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will discuss a potential ban on the sale of rhododendron ponticum at the next meeting of the British-Irish Council.
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Question reference: S6W-40325
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how it promotes a higher birth rate, in light of reports that the number of births in Scotland in 2024 dropped to its lowest number in 169 years.
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Question reference: S6W-40333
- Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Reform UK
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions (a) it and (b) its agencies has had with the horticultural sector regarding the invasiveness of rhododendron ponticum.
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Question reference: S6W-40324
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 September 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 September 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what barriers it has identified in relation to ensuring that brain tumour patients have equal access to drug treatments, regardless of where they live.
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