Chamber and committees

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.

Find out more about parliamentary questions

Filter your results Hide all filters

Displaying 5004 questions Show Answers

Order by |

Question reference: S7W-04620

Asked by: Pauline Stafford, MSP for Bathgate, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 November 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made in implementing recommendation 36 of the second Strategic Transport Projects Review (STPR2), which called for a national review of freight parking and rest areas to better understand the barriers to their development, whether the review has been completed, what its findings were, and what actions have been taken, or are planned, to increase the provision of safe and secure freight parking and rest facilities across Scotland.

Question reference: S7W-04631

Asked by: David Linden, MSP for Glasgow Baillieston and Shettleston, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 November 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a timescale for the commencement of Parts 2 and 3 of the Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Act 2022.

Question reference: S7W-04607

Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 November 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has received advice on whether the inclusion of Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles (CAF) on the UN database of businesses involved in activities connected with Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territories could constitute grounds for excluding CAF from ScotRail procurement exercises and, if so, what the broad conclusions of that advice were.

Question reference: S7W-04619

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 November 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how much it will cost it to give every house in council tax bands A to D £100 towards their energy bill.

Question reference: S7W-04617

Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 November 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how many houses are currently in each council tax band.

Question reference: S7W-04634

Asked by: Clare Haughey, MSP for Rutherglen and Cambuslang, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 November 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to assess whether there are any gaps or weaknesses in existing wildlife protection laws as part of its review and consolidation of nature conservation legislation.

Question reference: S7W-04632

Asked by: Q Manivannan, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 November 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the development of a Scottish Artists Minimum Income pilot, whether it will provide an update on (a) its plans to develop the scheme in consultation with the culture sector workforce, including freelance and working-class artists, (b) the timeline for the implementation of the scheme and (c) the role that it expects the scheme to play in addressing existing inequities within the cultural sector.

Question reference: S7W-04629

Asked by: Laura Moodie, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 November 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that the existing Carbon Calculator for wind farms on Scottish peatlands produces accurate assessments of carbon impacts, in light of the methodological weaknesses identified in the January 2025 report by ClimateXChange, Carbon Calculator for wind farms on Scottish peatlands: an evidence assessment, and the calculator's planned continued use until the 2028 replacement is made available.

Question reference: S7W-04626

Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 November 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what contingency plan it has in place in the event that carbon capture at the proposed Peterhead gas-fired power plant fails to achieve the rates set out in the planning application.

Question reference: S7W-04637

Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 12 November 2026

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the 9.15am weekday travel restriction for the ScotRail Friends and Family Railcard discount was retained despite the removal of peak fares on ScotRail services.