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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 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 9 October 2025
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Question reference: S6W-30149

  • Asked by: Michael Matheson, MSP for Falkirk West, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 8 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to bring forward Falkirk Growth Deal projects, in light of reports of the Grangemouth refinery closure.

Question reference: S6W-30114

  • Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 October 2024

 

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to tackle the so-called evidence gap in assessing rural poverty and deprivation, as described in the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation’s Rural deprivation: Evidence summary, which was published in November 2016.

 

Question reference: S6W-30111

  • Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 8 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has made any assessment of the domestic shipbuilding sector’s ability to meet future demand for (a) new ferries and (b) ferry-related infrastructure in (i) Argyll and Bute and (ii) the Western Isles.

Question reference: S6W-30261

  • Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 8 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to protect the public's right to privacy, in light of Police Scotland's reported decision to use live facial recognition surveillance technology for the first time.

Question reference: S6W-30226

  • Asked by: Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 8 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the Deer Working Group did not contain any practitioners from the deer stalking community, in light of reports of their expressed interest in participating.

Question reference: S6W-30224

  • Asked by: Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 8 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the reported goal to cull an additional 50,000 deer annually, whether it has explored plans to implement infrastructure in the Central Belt and Lowlands, similar to that established in the Highlands, including community hubs.

Question reference: S6W-30229

  • Asked by: Ash Regan, MSP for Edinburgh Eastern, Alba Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 8 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the statutory duty on local authorities to implement deer management plans, and the reported increased importance of recording deer numbers to meet the target of an additional 50,000 culled deer annually, for what reason data is available for only five out of 32 local authorities, and whether it will provide funding to local authorities to ensure that accurate deer management plans can be produced to facilitate the recording of deer numbers.

Question reference: S6W-30216

  • Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 8 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it is able to directly attribute any decline in rates of teenage (a) smoking, (b) drinking and (c) drug-taking to either (i) the Planet Youth pilot scheme or (ii) pre-existing anti-substance abuse health campaigns.

Question reference: S6W-30217

  • Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 27 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 8 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has provided to Winning Scotland to fund its Planet Youth in Scotland programme in each year since the programme was established.

Question reference: S6W-30115

  • Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 September 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 8 October 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-29676 by Jenni Minto on 18 September 2024, for what reason (a) it and (b) Public Health Scotland does not (i) collect and (ii) hold this data centrally, and whether either organisation will commit to begin collecting this data to help understand how disease modifying therapies are being used in Scotland to treat multiple sclerosis (MS).