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: S7W-02833
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S7W-02306 by Jim Fairlie on 17 August 2026, what specific measures in The Life Sciences Strategy for Scotland Sprint 1 Delivery Plan it considers will support the implementation of the 3Rs ethical framework.
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Question reference: S7W-02806
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to include powers for Compulsory Sales Orders in any bills during the current parliamentary session, in light of the strong support for such powers expressed by local authorities and housing associations responding to its recent consultation.
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Question reference: S7W-02807
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what interim measures it is taking to support local authorities bring vacant and derelict buildings back into productive use while the statutory framework for Compulsory Sales Orders is being developed.
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Question reference: S7W-02812
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh North Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it has had with philanthropic foundations and individual philanthropists regarding the role that philanthropy can play in supporting charities and communities across Scotland.
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Question reference: S7W-02815
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh North Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with charitable funders regarding the reported pressures that charities are facing as public finances tighten, and whether it will consider the role that philanthropic funding could play alongside public funding to help sustain vital community organisations.
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Question reference: S7W-02810
- Asked by: Malcolm Offord, MSP for West Scotland, Reform UK
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the commitment in the 2026 Scottish National Party manifesto to enact a statutory price cap on essential food items, what its response is reported comments by CBI Scotland that such a price cap risks distorting competition and adding complexity without addressing underlying cost pressures.
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Question reference: S7W-02813
- Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh North Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the UK Government's strategy for England, Our place to give: a plan for growing place-based philanthropy, and whether it has identified any approaches within that strategy that could inform collaboration between government, philanthropy and civil society in Scotland.
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Question reference: S7W-02829
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 16 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has received any Barnett consequential funding as a result of the UK Government's introduction of a local news fund.
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Question reference: S7F-00029
- Asked by: Russell Findlay, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 September 2026
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 September 2026
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S7F-00028
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 September 2026
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 September 2026
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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