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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 30 July 2025
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Question reference: S6W-39392

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to monitor whether the funeral industry standards set out in the Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016 are being upheld.

Question reference: S6W-39393

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made hiring funeral inspectors, as set out in the Burial and Cremation (Scotland) Act 2016.

Question reference: S6W-39374

  • Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what long-term plan it has to support people with pulmonary fibrosis.

Question reference: S6W-39401

  • Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the finding in the research, The gendered impact of Covid-19 on health behaviours and mental health: Evidence from the UK, that more adverse changes in women’s health, compared with men, following the COVID-19 pandemic, persisted through to May 2023, which suggests that longer-term effects may have been worsened by financial pressures during this period, what measures it has put in place to ensure that this does not happen again.

Question reference: S6W-39397

  • Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the research, The gendered impact of Covid-19 on health behaviours and mental health: Evidence from the UK, which reportedly shows that women’s mental and physical health were affected more negatively than men’s during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Question reference: S6W-39402

  • Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government when it anticipates that Public Health Scotland will publish the framework to support out-of-home outlets to provide and promote healthy food.

Question reference: S6W-39395

  • Asked by: Tess White, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter of 11 July 2025 from its Director of People to the human rights charity, Sex Matters, whether it will provide further details of the consultation that is referred to; when it anticipates that the consultation will start; who will be consulted; how long the consultation will run for, and whether the results will be published in the public domain.

Question reference: S6W-39394

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish the 2024-25 edition of the Annual Report: Inspectors of Burial, Cremation and Funeral Directors.

Question reference: S6W-39400

  • Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to make targeted interventions more widely available for those who need them but who are unlikely to be able to access them, as recommended in the conclusion of the research, The gendered impact of Covid-19 on health behaviours and mental health: Evidence from the UK.

Question reference: S6W-39379

  • Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the information provided in response to Freedom of Information request 202500455118, whether it has received the evidence and further information that it required from GFG Alliance on its global refinancing, and, if not, when it anticipates that it will receive this evidence and information.