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-05037
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the supplementary question by Jackie Dunbar, during First Minister's Questions on 3 June 2021, that it “will implement the recommendations of the Just Transition Commission”, whether it will list what it considers the recommendations to be, and how many have been implemented to date.
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Question reference: S6W-05067
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 11 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Historic Environment Scotland publication, Guide to Energy Retrofit of Traditional Buildings, regarding the need for "an extensive programme of domestic retrofit" and the part that "the existing built environment, including older or historic buildings, will need to play...in the national refurbishment effort".
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Question reference: S6W-05038
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 6 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the supplementary question by Jackie Dunbar, during First Minister's Questions on 3 June 2021, what progress it has achieved to date through its discussions with trade unions, businesses and communities to develop just transition plans.
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Question reference: S6W-05142
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 5 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what support its 2022-23 Budget will provide to those affected by thalidomide.
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Question reference: S6W-05151
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 5 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to promote (a) public ownership, (b) integration and (c) the use of renewable energy in the public transport system.
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Question reference: S6W-05153
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 5 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken to encourage bus passengers to wear a face covering, unless they are exempt.
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Question reference: S6W-04991
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 23 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the ruling of the European Court of Human Rights on Pal vs The United Kingdom [2021] ECHR 990 has any implications for the application of the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, and, if it considers there are implications, what they are.
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Question reference: S6O-00590
- Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 23 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether NHS boards require pregnant medical staff to work in settings where there are patients with COVID-19.
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Question reference: S6O-00589
- Asked by: Gordon MacDonald, MSP for Edinburgh Pentlands, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 23 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the Warmer Homes Scotland scheme.
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Question reference: S6O-00591
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 23 December 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what impact the COVID-19 pandemic has had on the delivery of the extension of free personal care to people under 65.