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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

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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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 7 February 2026
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Question reference: S6W-36144

  • Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 March 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 22 April 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what steps are being taken to review the current reported restrictions on pharmacists working in the community having access to full clinical records for patients in their care to ensure safe prescribing.

Question reference: S6W-36811

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 22 April 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of a recent UK-wide survey suggesting that 17% of NHS staff did not consider their building to be safe, whether it will commission a similar survey of NHS Scotland staff.

Question reference: S6W-36568

  • Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 04 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 22 April 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that people across Scotland are able to exercise their legal rights to (a) assembly, (b) demonstrate and (c) peacefully protest, without fear of undue harassment or victimisation by law enforcement.

Question reference: S6W-36558

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 04 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 April 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what guidance it has issued regarding the use of AI in schools.

Question reference: S6W-36594

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 04 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 22 April 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what hardware costs it has paid in each of the last five years for the provision of virtual meetings for its staff.

Question reference: S6W-36611

  • Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 04 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 22 April 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what role the Thistle safer drug consumption facility plays in providing information to Police Scotland about contaminated drugs.

Question reference: S6W-36590

  • Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 04 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 22 April 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many children and young people have been reported as running away from home in each local authority area in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S6W-36609

  • Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 04 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 22 April 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-32778 by Ivan McKee on 7 January 2025, what the cost would have been in each year since 2016-17 of bringing the Higher Property Rate into line with that in England, broken down by industry sector.

Question reference: S6W-36565

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 04 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 22 April 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what accountability mechanisms are in place for ministers when NHS performance targets are missed.

Question reference: S6W-36429

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 22 April 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to stimulate employment in areas with persistently high welfare dependency.