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-00964
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scot and Lothians West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government when the single national skills plan will be published.
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Question reference: S7W-00953
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scot and Lothians West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that a number of secondary schools are reducing subject choice from the curriculum due to a lack of specialised teachers.
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Question reference: S7W-00967
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scot and Lothians West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what annual targets it has set to achieve the commitment to deliver 150,000 apprenticeships over the current parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S7W-00944
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scot and Lothians West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it remains on track to fulfil the commitments of The Promise by 2030.
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Question reference: S7W-00981
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the University of Aberdeen’s report, The Past, Present and Future of Oil and Gas Exploration and Production West of Shetland (WoS), which states that "the basin to the West of Shetland could still contain almost five billion barrels of oil".
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Question reference: S7W-00973
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has for the digitisation of patient records, and what projects in this field have been completed, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S7W-00965
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scot and Lothians West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government when the review on the Shape of Future Funding Framework for universities will (a) commence and (b) be published.
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Question reference: S7W-00958
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scot and Lothians West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what indicators it will use to assess the success of its public health approach to smartphone use among children and young people.
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Question reference: S7W-00980
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Heriot Watt University report, Offshore Wind and the Spatial Squeeze: A Plausible Future, Layout for the North Sea, which states that "projected and operational offshore wind developments would cover approximately 58,500 square kilometres of the North Sea, rising from around 1% of the basin today to about 11% by 2050”, and how this could impact Scotland’s fishing industry.
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Question reference: S7W-00959
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scot and Lothians West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 June 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 25 June 2026
To ask the Scottish Government when the recommendations of the March 2026 report, Additional Support for Learning: A Review of System Delivery for Learners, (the McManus Review) will be fully implemented.
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