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-02411
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 August 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 7 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to its consultation on the Draft Energy Efficiency (Domestic Private Rented Property) (Scotland) Regulations, which closed on 29 August 2025, when it will publish the responses received.
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Question reference: S7W-02407
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 August 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 7 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on (a) the time taken from first presentation with symptoms to diagnosis and (b) the routes to diagnosis, including emergency presentation, for cancer patients aged under 25.
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Question reference: S7W-02409
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 August 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 7 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of whether the application process for the Young Patients Family Fund acts as a barrier that prevents those who are eligible from claiming from it.
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Question reference: S7W-02368
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 August 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 7 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what the annual fuel consumption associated with providing CalMac's Gourock to Dunoon ferry service has been in each year since 2024.
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Question reference: S7W-02394
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 August 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 7 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what the average waiting time for an ophthalmology appointment was in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.
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Question reference: S7W-02392
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 August 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 7 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any plans to extend kinship care support payments to eligible young people up to the age of 21.
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Question reference: S7W-02389
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 August 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 7 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government how many Scottish-domiciled medical graduates did not enter employment in NHS Scotland in each year since 1999.
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Question reference: S7W-02382
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 August 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 7 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider re-evaluating the assessment set out in its document, Scottish Government Bonds Programme: Summary Outline Business Case, to include (a) within the Critical Success Factors for assessing the case for bond issuance the potential economic benefits to Scottish businesses, investors and pension funds, and (b) consideration of the benefits to smaller, domestic investors of issuing retail bonds rather than wholesale bonds.
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Question reference: S7W-02385
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 August 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 7 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government if, as part of its assessment of the case for issuing Scottish Government bonds, as set out in the document, Scottish Government Bonds Programme: Summary Outline Business Case, it considered whether, by mitigating against potential interest payment leakage from the domestic economy, issuing retail bonds would be more beneficial to the Scottish economy and its Community Wealth Building goals than issuing wholesale bonds.
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Question reference: S7W-02402
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Edinburgh and Lothians East, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 August 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 7 September 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S7W-01756 by Angela Constance on 3 August 2026, which stakeholders it intends to engage with to inform future approaches to cancer care for children and young people, and when such engagement is expected to commence.
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