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-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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Question reference: S6W-42355
- 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 how many (a) UK and (b) Scottish Budget-related meetings have taken place between Scottish and UK ministers since September 2025.
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Question reference: S6W-42383
- 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 (a) drug- and (b) alcohol-related hospital admissions were recorded in Inverclyde in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S6W-42389
- Asked by: Douglas Ross, 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 how many applications the Oil and Gas Transition Training Fund has received since it opened.
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Question reference: S6W-42377
- 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 the average ambulance response time is in Inverclyde, and how this compares with the national average.
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Question reference: S6W-42396
- 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 whether it will provide an update on planned reforms to the governance of ferry services provided by CalMac under the Clyde and Hebrides (Third Generation) contract, which commenced on 1 October 2025.
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Question reference: S6W-42401
- 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 action it is taking, including what funding it is making available, following the recent confirmation of the presence of avian influenza at a farm in South Lanarkshire.
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Question reference: S6W-42407
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 December 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 18 December 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how much Police Scotland paid EY in total for the Your Leadership Matters training programme.
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Question reference: S6W-42352
- 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, further to the article in The Scotsman on 23 November 2025, which reported that a recent meeting scheduled between the Cabinet Secretary for Housing and the UK energy minister had been cancelled, in light of the comment that the cabinet secretary had found that "communication has been difficult to establish", whether it will confirm its definition of "difficult to establish" in the context of this.
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