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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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 17 July 2025
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Question reference: S6W-30087

  • Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 23 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 1 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government in what ways it evaluates the efficacy of the Funeral Support Payment.

Question reference: S6W-30052

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 20 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 1 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how it engages with dental practices in remote and rural areas to understand and respond to the reported challenges that they face, such as recruitment and retention.

Question reference: S6W-30039

  • Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 20 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 1 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of them currently delivering a reported 80% of the annual deer cull, how it will ensure that the policy intention to establish deer management nature restoration orders under the proposed Natural Environment Bill will not adversely affect private deer managers, and what impact assessment it will carry out.

Question reference: S6W-30056

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 20 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 1 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to expedite the delivery of the Veterans Homelessness Prevention Pathway, in light of it having been two years since publication and the reported delay in implementation having been cited as a concern in the Scottish Veterans Commissioner progress reports in both 2023 and 2024, and, if so, how it plans to do so.

Question reference: S6W-30037

  • Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 20 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 1 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what the position is of NatureScot regarding the policy intention to establish deer management nature restoration orders under the proposed Natural Environment Bill, and whether it will publish all of the correspondence and advice, including the minutes of any meetings, that it has received from NatureScot regarding these orders.

Question reference: S6W-30050

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 20 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 1 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how it monitors the impact of Scottish Dental Access Initiative grants, and what its position is on whether the funding is supporting NHS dentistry in remote and rural areas.

Question reference: S6W-30060

  • Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 20 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 1 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-29797 by Angela Constance on 19 September 2024, whether there have been any recorded instances of requests that were unknowingly or inadvertently made in conflict with what was recorded in the Cell Sharing Risk Assessment, and what policy governs the response to such a situation.

Question reference: S6W-30053

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 20 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 1 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it has had with NHS Tayside regarding access to Scottish Dental Access Initiative grants in Brechin and Montrose, and whether there are plans to review the allowance in this part of Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-30040

  • Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 20 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 1 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish details of the specific case studies demonstrating that it had been unable to exercise powers under sections 7 and 8 of the Deer (Scotland) Act 1996, which have led to the policy intention to establish deer management nature restoration orders under the proposed Natural Environment Bill.

Question reference: S6W-29931

  • Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 1 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government when the Assisted Support for Learning Project Board last met, and what was discussed.