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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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 26 July 2025
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Question reference: S6W-09443

  • Asked by: Siobhian Brown, MSP for Ayr, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 27 July 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with South Ayrshire Council regarding the Station Hotel, and whether it has been informed when South Ayrshire Council will publish an options report.

Question reference: S6W-09455

  • Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 27 July 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the precise number of public electric vehicle (EV) charging points in Scotland as at 1 June 2022.

Question reference: S6W-09743

  • Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 27 July 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what provision it makes to ensure that children and young people from armed forces and veterans' families are included in any consultation events or processes carried out that include or involve children and young people.

Question reference: S6W-09747

  • Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 27 July 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that teachers and those training to be teachers are supported to understand the additional support for learning needs of children and young people from armed forces and veterans' families, in line with the recognition in the Supporting Children’s Learning: Statutory Guidance on the Education (Additional Support for Learning) Scotland Act 2004 (as amended) Code of Practice 2017 that the children of parents in the armed forces are a group that "may require additional support".

Question reference: S6W-09447

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 27 July 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will take steps to ensure that the A737 Improvements at Beith scheme and future major roads projects that it commissions are progressed in a timely and efficient manner, including through the introduction of general timescales, in order to increase accountability and transparency in the way that Transport Scotland progresses and delivers such projects.

Question reference: S6W-09453

  • Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 July 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what the reasons were for the decision to cease separate publication of waiting times to access audiology services after May 2014, and whether the renewed publication of waiting times for audiology services, for both adults and children, will be considered as part of the review of audiology services in Scotland announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care.

Question reference: S6W-09462

  • Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 27 July 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what support is being made available for children from economically and socially deprived communities over the summer holiday period.

Question reference: S6W-09461

  • Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 27 July 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to implement a service-level agreement with ScotRail.

Question reference: S6W-09475

  • Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 27 July 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how much its marketing budget for any planned campaigns for buses and coaches is in 2022-23.

Question reference: S6W-09796

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 July 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 27 July 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what the budget was for the Social Care Staff Support Fund in financial years (a) 2020-21, (b) 2021-22 and (c) 2022/23, and how much was allocated in each of those years.