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: S7W-00608
- Asked by: Andrew Baxter, MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 11 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with Motability Operations regarding the introduction of any rural or island exemptions to revised mileage limits and excess mileage charges.
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Question reference: S7W-00644
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 11 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it supports the introduction of zonal pricing in the electricity market, and what specific evidence it has relied upon in forming its position.
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Question reference: S7W-00628
- Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 11 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to support further electrification of the east coast rail line to Aberdeen by the end of the current parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S7W-00642
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 11 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what incidental findings of other lung diseases will be reported from the lung cancer screening programme.
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Question reference: S7W-00637
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 11 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government how many attacks on NHS staff have been reported each month in each of the last 10 years, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S7W-00564
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 11 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to equip ScotRail passenger trains with satellite wi-fi.
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Question reference: S7W-00570
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 11 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to concerns that the Caledonian Maritime Assets Ltd (CMAL) Single Procurement Document (Scotland) requirements in its contract notice, Shipyard Detailed Design and Build Contract RoPax Vessel, for the Mallaig-Lochboisdale route reportedly exclude all UK shipbuilding firms from eligibility, and whether it will instruct CMAL to revise these requirements and actively engage with UK shipbuilders to ensure that they are able to tender for the contract.
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Question reference: S7W-00635
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 11 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter of 11 February 2026 by the Minister for Drugs and Alcohol Policy and Sport to the Convener of the Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee regarding PE1900 (Access to prescribed medication for detainees in police custody), whether NHS Grampian now has appropriate arrangements in place to ensure timely access to prescribed medication, including controlled drugs, for detainees.
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Question reference: S7W-00580
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 11 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government how much compensation has been paid out to property (a) owners and (b) renters since the 2022-23 financial year as a result of living in properties affected by reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC).
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Question reference: S7W-00575
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 11 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made in monitoring and evaluating the implementation of its Home Education Guidance, published in January 2025, and whether it has commenced a review with HM Inspectorate of Education and other relevant partners into whether arrangements for home education are providing young people with sufficient support, as per the commitment by the previous Cabinet Secretary for Education on 24 June 2025.
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