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-03015
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service's (a) resource and (b) capital budget, how much has been allocated, and how much would have been allocated had budgets increased in line with the inflation measure used by the Scottish Government, in each year since its creation.
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Question reference: S7W-03052
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether its policy presumption against new nuclear power generation extends to private-wire micro-reactors constructed entirely on private commercial land to directly power data centres without connecting to the national grid, and what devolved powers it could use to intervene in such developments.
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Question reference: S7W-03026
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S7O-00157 by Stephen Flynn on 2 September 2026, what assessment it has made of the risk of distortion of competition between Aberdeen International Airport and Inverness Airport arising from the proposed Highlands and Islands exemption from Air Departure Tax, including any impact on competing domestic air routes.
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Question reference: S7W-03051
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what legal assessment it has made of its ability to direct SEPA to refuse environmental permits for a small modular reactor (SMR) development, where the relevant reactor design has successfully completed the UK Office for Nuclear Regulation’s Generic Design Assessment (GDA) process and been deemed safe at a UK level.
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Question reference: S7W-03027
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what passenger and aviation data it relied on when it concluded that the proposed Air Departure Tax exemption for domestic flights from Highlands and Islands airports, including Inverness Airport, is necessary to support connectivity, including (a) the source, (b) year of the most recent data considered and (c) any equivalent evidence relating to Aberdeen International Airport.
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Question reference: S7W-03045
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S7W-02737 by Simita Kumar on 7 September 2026, how many people are employed at the Gaza HOPES Field Readiness Hub.
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Question reference: S7W-03049
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S7W-02737 by Simita Kumar on 7 September 2026, how many patients have been treated at the Gaza HOPES Field Readiness Hub to date.
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Question reference: S7W-03046
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S7W-02737 by Simita Kumar on 7 September 2026, whether it will provide a detailed breakdown of how the £400,000 provided to the Gaza HOPES Field Readiness Hub has been spent.
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Question reference: S7W-03039
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what subsidy it is providing to First Bus for each passenger journey on the Glasgow Airport Express service.
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Question reference: S7W-03048
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government how many children from Gaza have been transported to Scotland for NHS treatment in the last four years.
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