Question reference: S5W-27219
- Asked by: George Adam, MSP for Paisley, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: 31 January 2020
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Current status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Michael Russell on 31 January 2020
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking in response to the Prime Minister’s letter to the First Minister of 14 January 2020.
Answer
The Scottish Government is committed to giving the people living in Scotland a choice over their future, as the Scottish Parliament voted for on 29 January.
We will ask the Electoral Commission to test the question, ‘‘should Scotland be an independent country?’.
We will invite Scotland’s elected representatives—MSPs, MPs, MEPs and Council Leaders—to establish a new Constitutional Convention, and endorse a modern Claim of Right for Scotland.
And we will publish a series of ‘New Scotland’ papers that will give the people of Scotland the information they need to make informed choices about the future of the country.