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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

Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search.  There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.

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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 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 18 December 2025
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Question reference: S6W-41744

  • Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 18 November 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the scoring mechanism used to determine applications from the Future Farming Investment Scheme.

Question reference: S6W-41757

  • Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 07 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 18 November 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many times its Partnership Action for Continuing Employment (PACE) team has been deployed to support businesses in each year since 2009.

Question reference: S6W-41821

  • Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 18 November 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the effectiveness of drug treatment and recovery programmes in reducing reoffending among former prisoners.

Question reference: S6W-41802

  • Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 18 November 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many online clicks its paper, A Fresh Start with Independence, received in its first month following publication, broken down by (a) main paper, (b) easy read version, (c) each individual language version and (d) audio version.

Question reference: S6W-41746

  • Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 18 November 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to referrals to Prevent in Scotland increasing by 42% in the last year.

Question reference: S6W-41733

  • Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 18 November 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many complaints Healthcare Improvement Scotland has received about maternity care provided by maternity units in each year since 2020-21, broken down by maternity unit.

Question reference: S6W-41735

  • Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 18 November 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that every maternity ward properly records serious birth tears and the number of women who experience significant blood loss while giving birth.

Question reference: S6W-41678

  • Asked by: Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, Independent
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 06 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 18 November 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the potential treatment of certain mental health conditions, what its position is on the current scheduling of psilocybin as a class A drug, which means it is illegal to possess, supply or produce it, and whether the current scheduling presents any problems in relation to the NHS conducting clinical trials in Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-41764

  • Asked by: Lorna Slater, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 10 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 18 November 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on any work it has undertaken to disqualify businesses who make use of unpaid trial shifts from receiving public grants and procurement contracts from the Scottish Government.

Question reference: S6W-41823

  • Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 18 November 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, regarding Scotland’s fishing sector, how it plans to support sustainable (a) economic growth, (b) development and (c) fishing practices (i) in north east Scotland and (ii) across Scotland.