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
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Question reference: S7W-03207
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the £2 bus fare cap in the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport area, how it has calculated the estimated number of passenger journeys, including any assumptions about passenger demand and the number of eligible journeys.
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Question reference: S7W-03230
- Asked by: Adam Harley, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) staff redeployment, (b) severance, (c) information technology systems, (d) property and (e) other savings will arise from the replacement of the 14 territorial NHS boards with two strategic boards.
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Question reference: S7W-03250
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for Fife North East, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government when it was made aware of NHS’s Tayside’s reported low rate of compliance with Standard 3 of the Scottish Standards for Electroconvulsive Therapy, and what subsequent action it took after this was brought to its attention.
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Question reference: S7W-03221
- Asked by: Adam Harley, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what date the three-month period of engagement on public service reform announced in the Programme for Government will begin and conclude, and what organisations it plans to meet with as part of this.
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Question reference: S7W-03205
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of the payments it will make to private bus operators in the Strathclyde Partnership for Transport area in the financial year 2026-27 under the £2 bus fare cap.
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Question reference: S7W-03235
- Asked by: Adam Harley, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government how local accountability for NHS services will be maintained under the proposed structure of two strategic NHS boards, and what arrangements there will be for decision-making at a local level.
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Question reference: S7W-03228
- Asked by: Adam Harley, MSP for Strathkelvin and Bearsden, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the results of any analysis that it has carried out on international models for the structure of social care and its integration with primary and secondary care.
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Question reference: S7W-03215
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh North Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether NHS boards are responsible for investigating patient experience complaints against GP practices that are not directly managed by the NHS.
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Question reference: S7W-03220
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to conducting public awareness campaigns on illegal puppy trading.
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Question reference: S7W-03213
- Asked by: Julie MacDougall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what funding it will allocate to repurposing homes that have been left derelict, abandoned or unused, in response to evidence provided by the Scottish Empty Homes partnership suggesting that there are 2,630 unused homes that have been empty for six months or more in Fife.
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