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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 13 July 2025
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Question reference: S6W-24093

  • Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 December 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 10 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to request that every school records the name and biological sex of every pupil in its admissions register.

Question reference: S6W-23982

  • Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Monday, 18 December 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 10 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how many properties have provided annual deer cull data to NatureScot in each of the past five years.

Question reference: S6W-23906

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2023

    Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 10 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the supplementary to question S6O-02702 by Paul McLennan on 9 November 2023, regarding its statement that "the £3.5 billion budget that we had set aside has effectively been cut in value by £700 million", whether any such reduction in value has taken place over one year or multiple years; what the annual sum of any such reduction is, and what the estimated real-terms value of the £3.5 billion is expected to be in each of the remaining years of the current parliamentary session.

Question reference: S6W-23857

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 10 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to continue funding the Ending Homelessness Together action plan, and, if it is the case that it does not, what support it will provide to organisations to help prevent homelessness.

Question reference: S6W-23862

  • Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 14 December 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 10 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the bus industry receiving funding of £329 million from local and central government in 2021-22, what its response is to the Scottish Transport Statistics 2022, which show that, aside from the COVID-19 pandemic years, a historic low of 234 million journeys were made by bus in 2021-22.

Question reference: S6W-24241

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 21 December 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 10 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of any projects funded through the Recycling Improvement Fund to date showing the (a) expected tonnage increase in recycled material and (b) funding allocated to each project.

Question reference: S6W-24095

  • Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 December 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 10 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to make it a requirement for boarding and residential accommodation at schools to include single-sex sleeping arrangements.

Question reference: S6W-23768

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 15 December 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 10 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the number of ferry breakdowns in the last year, what processes and procedures are being put in place in the next 12 months to ensure that CalMac can maintain continuous ferry services to communities, and how this will be managed and improved upon in the future.

Question reference: S6W-23833

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 December 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 10 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-23098 by Mairi McAllan on 8 December 2023, how many awards of each type of grant have been issued by each local authority to date.

Question reference: S6W-24099

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 December 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 10 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the role of counsellors and psychotherapists in delivering its Mental Health and Wellbeing Strategy.