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-26983
- Asked by: Audrey Nicoll, MSP for Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 April 2024
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answer expected on 8 May 2024
To ask the Scottish Government when the next paper in the Building a New Scotland series will be published.
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Question reference: S6O-03344
- Asked by: Audrey Nicoll, MSP for Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 April 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support the Universities Scotland 40 Faces campaign.
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Question reference: S6O-03298
- Asked by: Audrey Nicoll, MSP for Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 April 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what recent engagement it has had with the UK Government regarding Scotland's agricultural funding post-2025.
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Question reference: S6T-01903
- Asked by: Audrey Nicoll, MSP for Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman’s report on how women born in the 1950s were affected by increases to the state pension age, and given that women are more likely to live in poverty than men, what assessment it has made of the potential impact that changes to the state pension age have had on the poverty rate among women in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6O-03236
- Asked by: Audrey Nicoll, MSP for Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the education secretary has had with ministerial colleagues regarding any potential implications for Scottish universities and colleges of the Migration Advisory Committee’s “rapid review” of the Graduate Route visa, as announced by the UK Government.
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Question reference: S6T-01837
- Asked by: Audrey Nicoll, MSP for Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 March 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the announcement by Aberdeen City Council that residents of approximately 500 homes in Torry face relocation as a result of reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete.
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Question reference: S6O-03136
- Asked by: Audrey Nicoll, MSP for Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 February 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government when it last met with representatives of the college sector.
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Question reference: S6O-03058
- Asked by: Audrey Nicoll, MSP for Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 January 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting the growth of international exports.
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Question reference: S6O-02960
- Asked by: Audrey Nicoll, MSP for Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 January 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how its Budget for 2024-25 will help to develop the offshore wind supply chain to ensure that Scotland benefits from the reported global expansion of wind energy.
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Question reference: S6O-02905
- Asked by: Audrey Nicoll, MSP for Aberdeen South and North Kincardine, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when it last met with the Scottish Medicines Consortium.