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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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 23 October 2025
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Question reference: S6T-02709

  • Asked by: Jackie Dunbar, MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 October 2025
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 October 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update regarding its response to Storm Amy.

Question reference: S6T-02704

  • Asked by: Martin Whitfield, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 October 2025
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 October 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to meet the interim and final child poverty reduction targets, in light of the Joseph Rowntree Foundation’s finding in its report, Poverty in Scotland 2025, that current levels remain largely unchanged since 2021.

Question reference: S6F-04378

  • Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 October 2025
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 October 2025

To ask the First Minister what assessment the Scottish Government has made of any implications for its work to mitigate the two-child benefit cap of the UK Government's reported proposals to replace the cap with a tapered system.

Question reference: S6F-04374

  • Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 October 2025
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 October 2025

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s response is to reports that the mental health budget has been reduced in the 2025-26 Autumn Budget Revision.

Question reference: S6F-04367

  • Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 October 2025
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 October 2025

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-04368

  • Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 October 2025
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 October 2025

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-04366

  • Asked by: Russell Findlay, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 October 2025
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 October 2025

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-04377

  • Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Falkirk West, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 October 2025
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 October 2025

To ask the First Minister, following Scotland’s Global Investment Summit 2025, whether he will provide an update on the Scottish Government’s work to attract international investment into Scotland’s economy.

Question reference: S6W-40836

  • Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 October 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 3 November 2025

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it plans to review its procurement contracts and practices, in light of motion S6M-18686 as amended on 3 September 2025 calling for the Scottish Government to "immediately impose a package of boycotts, divestment and sanctions targeted at the State of Israel and at companies complicit in its military operations and its occupation of Palestine".

Question reference: S6W-40682

  • Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 22 September 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 6 October 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the recent visit to Japan by the Cabinet Secretary for Climate Action and Energy, to lead a delegation from Scotland's offshore wind sector, on what (a) date she left the UK to travel to Japan, (b) dates she was in Japan leading the delegation, (c) date the visit was (i) provisionally entered and (ii) confirmed in the cabinet secretary’s diary, (d) date each diary event in Japan was provisionally entered or confirmed in the ministerial diary, (e) date the cabinet secretary (1) informally and (2) formally agreed to go to Japan, and who this was confirmed to; whether it will provide a list of all the delegates who attended the visit with the cabinet secretary, and on what date the other members of the delegation had the date of the visit confirmed to them.