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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

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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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 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 18 December 2025
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Question reference: S6W-42682

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Independent
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 15 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the decision taken in the UK Government Budget to provide a permanent business rate discount for retail and hospitality businesses in England from April 2026, what analysis or assessment it has undertaken of the potential risk to the fulfilment of its Town Centre Action Plan if Scotland does not introduce a commensurate reduction in business rates and commercial investment in retail and hospitality shifts to England.

Question reference: S6W-42687

  • Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 15 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-39888 by Jim Fairlie on 9 September 2025, whether it will meet its commitment in the response to "publish the first Rural Support Plan in December 2025" and, if this will not be achieved, by what date the plan will be published.

Question reference: S6W-42743

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 15 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what modelling it has carried out to estimate future inflows of immigrants relocating from other parts of the UK because of Scotland’s differing housing policies.

Question reference: S6W-42717

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 15 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has undertaken of the impact of its housing policies on the supply of affordable homes for families in crisis.

Question reference: S6W-42733

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 15 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it has had with (a) families and (b) clinicians calling for the introduction of routine point of care testing for diabetes symptoms.

Question reference: S6W-42731

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 15 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will introduce mandatory finger prick or urine tests for children presenting with symptoms associated with type 1 diabetes.

Question reference: S6W-42732

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 15 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how many cases of diabetic ketoacidosis in children have resulted from delayed diagnosis in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S6W-42681

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Independent
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 15 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the decision taken in the UK Government Budget to provide a permanent business rate discount for retail and hospitality businesses in England from April 2026, whether it will adhere to its pledge in the New Deal for Business Group Implementation Plan to deliver a competitive business rates system.

Question reference: S6W-42709

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 15 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish a full winter resilience plan for NHS Scotland, including staffing, bed capacity and infection control plans, and, if so, when.

Question reference: S6W-42679

  • Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 15 January 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what the outcome was of any investigation into the pollution incident reported at Loch Hourn in April 2025; what the (a) source and (b) nature of any pollution was determined to be; whether any enforcement action has been taken as a result, and what steps have been taken to prevent any recurrence.