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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: S7W-03848

Asked by: Lloyd Melville, MSP for Angus South, Scottish National Party
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 28 October 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how its proposed £350 million Better Surfaces Fund will be allocated among local authorities.

Question reference: S7W-03790

Asked by: Andrew Baxter, MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 28 October 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether it supports calls to establish a register of wildfire-capable equipment and specialist contractors that organisations responding to wildfires can access and, if so, what arrangements it would propose for checking competence, agreeing deployment and payment terms, and ensuring that information remains current.

Question reference: S7W-03809

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh North Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 28 October 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will commit to any additional funding and specific timescales for reducing ADHD assessment and treatment waiting times across Scotland, and, if so, how much funding it will provide, what the timescale will be and what support will be available to people while they wait.

Question reference: S7W-03849

Asked by: Lloyd Melville, MSP for Angus South, Scottish National Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 28 October 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact of the increase in employers' National Insurance contributions on rural and agricultural businesses.

Question reference: S7W-03786

Asked by: Andrew Baxter, MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 28 October 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of comments reportedly made by the Minister for Agriculture, Marine and the Islands at a public meeting in Aviemore on 18 September 2026 regarding the Cairngorms wildfire, whether the central budget and contractual arrangements for aerial wildfire support enable its deployment to be authorised before agreement has been reached on which responding organisation will bear the cost.

Question reference: S7W-03810

Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh North Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 28 October 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it will take to ensure consistent access to NHS prescribing and shared care for people with an appropriate private ADHD diagnosis, regardless of where they live in Scotland, while maintaining the necessary clinical safeguards.

Question reference: S7W-03792

Asked by: Andrew Baxter, MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 28 October 2026

To ask the Scottish Government in what circumstances recipients of woodland creation or management grants may be required to repay funding where woodland is damaged or destroyed by wildfire, and what discretion, appeal arrangements and restoration support are available.

Question reference: S7W-03845

Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 28 October 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it is giving to women’s poverty as part of its public service reform agenda, and what engagement it is undertaking with stakeholders to ensure that women’s poverty and child poverty are at the forefront of this reform.

Question reference: S7W-03817

Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 28 October 2026

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the July 2025 update to its policy on the protection of Ramsar wetland sites, what contact it has had or plans to have with the Ramsar Convention secretariat regarding the proposed Coul Links golf club.

Question reference: S7W-03811

Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 28 October 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) it or (b) NatureScot receives census data updates from the University of Edinburgh's St Kilda Soay Sheep Research Project, and, if so, whether it will publish the census data for August 2026.