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-42325
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 December 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what modelling it undertook prior to ending the local connection rule regarding the likely distribution of homeless individuals across Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-42403
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 December 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what plans are in place for carcass testing for avian influenza in the wild bird population throughout winter 2025-26.
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Question reference: S6W-42376
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 December 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what capital investment it is planning for Inverclyde Royal Hospital to ensure that it remains a fully-resourced acute care hospital serving the local community.
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Question reference: S6W-42387
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 December 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many small businesses in East Dunbartonshire have closed in each of the last five years, and what the main reported causes of closure were.
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Question reference: S6W-42382
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 December 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding access to mental health treatment services in Inverclyde, how many people (a) are currently waiting more than 18 weeks and (b) have waited more than 18 weeks in the last five years.
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Question reference: S6W-42374
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 December 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to attract major employers to Inverclyde as part of its wider economic strategy.
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Question reference: S6W-42405
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 December 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what further action it plans to take to tackle the problem of underage vaping, in light of the report from the Faculty of Dental Surgery suggesting that 7.4% of 11- to 17-year-olds vape regularly.
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Question reference: S6W-42391
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 December 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether future support for Less Favoured Areas through Tier 2 of the new Agriculture Reform Framework will be based on contemporaneous or historic data.
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Question reference: S6W-42404
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 December 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what surveillance is in place to detect avian influenza in the wild bird population, and whether it plans to increase this following the recent confirmation of the presence of avian influenza at a farm in South Lanarkshire.
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Question reference: S6W-42394
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 December 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Islands Connectivity Plan’s Community Needs Assessment methodology recognising the importance of workforce issues, including crewing levels, seafarers hours of work, seafarer certification, seafarer accommodation, operating conditions, vessel type and vessel design, in the route specific provision of lifeline ferry services, what formal role (a) ferry staff and (b) recognised trade unions will have in the Community Needs Assessment of lifeline ferry services envisaged in the plan.
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