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
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Question reference: S6W-26105
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 26 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the response by the Cabinet Secretary for Wellbeing Economy, Net Zero and Energy to the question on a competitive shipbuilding financing guarantee programme during the ministerial statement on Ferguson Marine on 5 March 2024, whether it will provide a substantive response regarding whether it will introduce a competitive shipbuilding financing guarantee programme in Scotland, similar to that of the Turkish national investment bank, Türk Eximbank.
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Question reference: S6W-26474
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on improving links between Glasgow Street Aid and emergency services, and whether it will take steps to support a more joined-up approach between the project and emergency services in the city.
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Question reference: S6W-26462
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what Scottish Water is doing to make safe and restore to a sustainable use, the historic Waterman's Cottage, which is adjacent to Lambhill stables on Balmore Road in Glasgow.
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Question reference: S6W-26475
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider including Glasgow Street Aid in its Resilience Room emergency and crisis response work.
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Question reference: S6W-26476
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 23 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider visiting the Glasgow Street Aid project to see its work providing care on the streets of the city centre.
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Question reference: S6F-02995
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 March 2024
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government is doing to expedite the restoration of the Glasgow School of Art, in light of it being nearly a decade since the first fire.
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Question reference: S6W-26346
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 19 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what practical measures it is taking to sustain the expertise and learning curves developed by the project team on the Edinburgh Trams to Newhaven project in order to optimise the delivery of the Clyde Metro project.
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Question reference: S6W-26345
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 March 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 19 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it will consider commissioning a Scottish Parliament wall shield plaque featuring the badge element of the Scottish Parliament's Corporate Identity and the official Scottish Parliament tartan, which could be available for MSPs to purchase as a presentational or gift item for sports matches, official visits and other such occasions.
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Question reference: S6W-26241
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 March 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many people in each local authority area received support through services funded through the Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund in 2023, and what assessment it has made of the number of children, young people and family members in total that were supported.
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Question reference: S6W-26107
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Emma Roddick on 20 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government when it anticipates that the equality impact assessment for the proposed anti-racism observatory will be completed, and how it is ensuring that all communities affected by racialisation and racism will have an equal opportunity to participate in the (a) assessment and (b) development of the observatory.