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
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Question reference: S7W-03672
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the extent to which the proposed Option 1 fisheries management measures for inshore Marine Protected Areas and Priority Marine Features are expected to contribute to achieving Good Environmental Status for Descriptor 6 (Seafloor Integrity) under the UK Marine Strategy.
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Question reference: S7W-03663
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to S6W-42237 by Mairi Gougeon on 10 December 2025, what the annual cost is of its contract with its external provider for the provision of Remote Piloted Aerial Surveillance Systems to conduct marine compliance aerial surveillance flights.
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Question reference: S7W-03662
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-42237 by Mairi Gougeon on 10 December 2025, how many Remote Piloted Aerial Surveillance Systems (RPAS) are currently available to the Marine Directorate for the purpose of marine compliance aerial surveillance flights.
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Question reference: S7W-03694
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S7W-03048 by Angela Constance on 21 September 2026, how many of the child patients and their families who arrived in Scotland in Autumn 2025 have returned home to date.
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Question reference: S7W-03668
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what fishery management measures it has implemented to achieve Good Environmental Status for Descriptor 6 (Seafloor Integrity) under the UK Marine Strategy, in line with the 2021 and 2025 Programmes of Measures.
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Question reference: S7W-03655
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, if all the Option 2 measures proposed in the Fisheries Management Measures within Scottish Inshore Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and Proposed Priority Marine Feature (PMF) Management Areas consultation were adopted for all MPAs, what percentage of Scotland’s inshore waters which are designated as being within the Marine Protected Areas network would be subject to year-round spatial restrictions on (a) all commercial fishing, (b) scallop dredging, (c) nephrops trawling, (d) both scallop dredging and nephrops trawling and (e) creeling.
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Question reference: S7W-03669
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government what monitoring arrangements it has established to assess the impact of fisheries management measures implemented to achieve Good Environmental Status for Descriptor 6 (Seafloor Integrity) under the UK Marine Strategy, in line with the 2021 and 2025 Programmes of Measures.
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Question reference: S7W-03686
- Asked by: Julie MacDougall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will conduct a full review of the economic impact of recent policies relating to short-term lets, including the Short Term Lets licensing scheme and Visitor Levy.
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Question reference: S7W-03679
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its decision to no longer have a dedicated Minister for Women's Health, and in light of the Scottish Women's Convention's recently published report, Women's Priorities 2026/27, which highlights that health is one of the top priorities for women and that many women describe distressing lived experiences when trying to access appropriate care, how it will ensure that women's health is treated as a distinct, cross-cutting priority across policy areas and services so that concerns set out by women are acted on.
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Question reference: S7W-03687
- Asked by: Julie MacDougall, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Reform UK
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 September 2026
- Current Status: Answer expected on 9 October 2026
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has considered what further support it or local authorities could provide to community groups immediately following the completion of a Community Asset Transfer, to assist with the initial establishment and ongoing management of community-owned assets.
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