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-41743
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 21 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many civil servants were allocated to process Future Farming Investment Scheme applications.
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Question reference: S6W-41751
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 21 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many buildings with cladding have had the Single Building Assessment completed.
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Question reference: S6W-41738
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 21 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-40374 by Jim Fairlie on 22 September 2025, how many applications for funding from the Future Farming Investment Scheme were (a) awarded and (b) not awarded support, broken down by area office.
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Question reference: S6W-41763
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 21 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure equitable access to medicines for people with metastatic breast cancer, in light of the decision by the Scottish Medicines Consortium not to fund the medicine, Piqray, which is available to patients in England.
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Question reference: S6W-41757
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 21 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many times its Partnership Action for Continuing Employment (PACE) team has been deployed to support businesses in each year since 2009.
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Question reference: S6W-41517
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 October 2025
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 7 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-40884 by Angela Constance on 17 October 2025, how many restorative justice test cases have been funded in the last 18 months, and what the outcomes were of these cases.
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Question reference: S6W-41471
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 October 2025
- Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 7 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding Creative Scotland has provided, through the funding programmes it manages, including those where the finance is provided by the National Lottery, for South Asian productions in (a) each of the last three full financial years and (b) 2025-26 to date.
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Question reference: S6W-41470
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 October 2025
- Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 7 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding any funding applications that Creative Scotland has received to support South Asian productions through the funding programmes that it manages, including those where the finance is provided by the National Lottery, how many applications in total there have been that were initially recommended for funding but where the non-departmental public body eventually reached a final decision not to support the project in (a) each of the last three full financial years and (b) 2025-26 to date.
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Question reference: S6W-41518
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 October 2025
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 7 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-40884 by Angela Constance on 17 October 2025, how much funding in total has been provided to any restorative justice test cases that have been conducted in the last 18 months.
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Question reference: S6W-41469
- Asked by: Jackson Carlaw, MSP for Eastwood, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 October 2025
- Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 7 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding funding programmes managed by Creative Scotland, including those where the finance is provided by the National Lottery, how many applications in total have been submitted for South Asian productions in (a) each of the last three full financial years and (b) 2025-26 to date, and how many of these have been (i) successful and (ii) unsuccessful in receiving funding.
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