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: S6W-38426
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 06 June 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 20 June 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how it is ensuring transparency in rail procurement projects, in light of reports that it will not disclose the cost of the procurement process for the new Intercity rail fleet.
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Question reference: S6W-38473
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 06 June 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 20 June 2025
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason young carers are reportedly discriminated against in relation to school absences and claiming Education Maintenance Allowance.
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Question reference: S6W-38413
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 06 June 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 20 June 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many confiscation orders issued prior to 2016 remain unpaid in full or in part.
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Question reference: S6W-37445
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 06 June 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 20 June 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what action it has taken, since the publication of the International Court of Justice's 19 July 2024 advisory opinion, to ensure that public bodies are enacting the Scottish Government's 2014 public procurement policy note in relation to discouraging trade and investment from illegal settlements.
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Question reference: S6W-38448
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 06 June 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 20 June 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-37767 by Gillian Martin on 3 June 2025, what assessment has been made of the proportion of (a) public bodies, excluding local authorities, and (b) private sector businesses that are ready to comply with the ban on municipal biodegradable waste to landfill by sending to another facility in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-38437
- Asked by: Colin Smyth, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 06 June 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 20 June 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether Forestry and Land Scotland has allowed external organisations to work under its own species-specific killing, disturbance or shelter destruction licences when carrying out forestry operations on the national forest estate; if so, how often, and which species are involved in any instances of such a licence transfer.
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Question reference: S6W-38477
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 06 June 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 20 June 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the accuracy of figures published by the Royal College of Radiologists showing that there is a shortage of radiologists, and what assessment it has made of the level of any shortage in relation to demand.
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Question reference: S6W-38469
- Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 06 June 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 20 June 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-37703 by Shona Robison on 30 May 2025, how this data compares with 2016.
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Question reference: S6W-38414
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 06 June 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 20 June 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how it monitors compliance with confiscation orders, and whether this process is subject to independent audit.
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Question reference: S6W-38460
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 06 June 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 20 June 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what the annual cost is of providing Buvidal treatment.
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