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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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Question reference: S6W-34022

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Monday, 27 January 2025
Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 6 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government which national flags it owns.

Question reference: S6W-33773

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 5 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting local authorities to improve mobile connectivity in areas with poor reception.

From 2018 to 2023, the Scottish Government invested £28.75 million to build 55 new mobile masts in longstanding ‘notspots’, bringing 4G connectivity for the first time to communities and businesses across rural and island Scotland. The Scottish Government has also funded the creation of Infralink. This is a dedicated toolkit designed to help Scotland’s public sector organisations more easily leverage publicly owned property and assets in the rollout of new telecommunications infrastructure.

Question reference: S6W-33496

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 5 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has carried out any review of the value for money of its newspaper subscriptions in the last five years and, if so, what the outcome was.

Question reference: S6W-33377

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Current Status: Answered by Claire Baker (on behalf of the SPCB) on 5 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, further to the answer to question S6W-32347 by Claire Baker on 14 January 2025, how it verifies that the beeswax used for the Great Seal of Scotland comes from the Parliament’s bees and whether it provides any payment for the wax to the beekeepers.

Question reference: S6W-33573

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Current Status: Answered by Claire Baker (on behalf of the SPCB) on 5 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many jars of honey were produced from the Parliament’s beehives in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S6W-33567

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 5 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how often healthcare needs assessments are conducted in rural areas, and what changes have been implemented in the last 10 years as a result.

Question reference: S6W-33577

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Current Status: Answered by Claire Baker (on behalf of the SPCB) on 5 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what the average loss/profit per jar of honey sold in the Parliament shop has been in each of the last five years.

The purpose of having bees at the Parliament is not to produce honey but to partially demonstrate our compliance with the biodiversity duty under the Nature Conservation (Scotland) Act 2004 which places a statutory duty on all public sector bodies in Scotland to further the conservation of biodiversity. The honey is a by-product from having bees and is sold at a profit minus any costs for bottling and labelling.

Question reference: S6W-33575

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Current Status: Answered by Claire Baker (on behalf of the SPCB) on 5 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what the average notice period given by the beekeeper, for visits to the Parliament’s estate, has been in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S6W-33576

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Current Status: Answered by Claire Baker (on behalf of the SPCB) on 5 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether it has any plans to review or change the current delivery of beekeeping services at the Parliament.

Question reference: S6W-33574

Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 January 2025
Current Status: Answered by Claire Baker (on behalf of the SPCB) on 5 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many visits the beekeeper has made to the Parliament’s estate in each of the last five years.