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: S6W-39269
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 6 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on (a) what should happen in the event that a prison officer is suspected of engaging in corrupt practices, (b) whether such officers should face criminal charges and (c) what specific criminal offences such officers could be charged with.
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Question reference: S6W-39245
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 6 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to ensure that the best opportunities for recovery are available to people immediately after an alcohol-related brain damage diagnosis when the most improvement can often be made, in light of reports that some people are waiting in hospital for months for guardianship applications to be processed before they can be moved.
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Question reference: S6W-39248
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 6 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of a recent fan-led review reportedly finding that 58% of live music fans in Scotland never use earplugs, how it plans to improve awareness of, and promote, hearing harm reduction methods.
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Question reference: S6W-39275
- Asked by: Pam Gosal, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 6 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what the total value was of counterfeit goods seized in the financial year 2024-25.
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Question reference: S6W-39254
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 6 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish its response to the national review of Alcohol Brief Interventions (ABIs).
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Question reference: S6W-39251
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 6 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what changes it will make in response to reports that unplanned hospital admissions will increase over the next 10 years, with a disproportionate amount being due to respiratory illnesses.
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Question reference: S6W-39253
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 6 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reported concerns regarding changes by NHS England to its cervical screening programme to bring it in line with the five-year cycle in Scotland, how it plans to reassure people in Scotland in relation to the evidence base and safety of its current screening programme.
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Question reference: S6W-39260
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 6 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-38841 by Jim Fairlie on 3 July 2025, what the items of expenditure are that capital expenditure is expected to cover within the pilot, and what level of capital spending the pilot expenditure of up to £1 million is expected to lever by way of private capital.
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Question reference: S6W-39270
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 6 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is aware of any police officers, prisoner officers or other public officials having been charged with misconduct in public office, or related common law offences, in the last five years.
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Question reference: S6W-39250
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 6 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures the public's respiratory safety in relation to the indoor air quality in people's homes.
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