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
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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Question reference: S6W-41627
- Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 October 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 14 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has conducted any recent analysis of the economic value of the A77.
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Question reference: S6W-41617
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 October 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 14 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-30681 by Paul McLennan on 8 November 2024, how many live homeless applications there were in each local authority area on Christmas Day in 2024, and how many (a) adults and (b) children these related to.
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Question reference: S6W-41618
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 October 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 14 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what support it has provided to communities to help them develop local place plans.
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Question reference: S6W-41597
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 October 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish its guidance on the proposed phasing out of cages for laying hens.
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Question reference: S6W-41607
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 October 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish a full timetable for meeting its 2021 election commitments on teacher workload reform.
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Question reference: S6W-41587
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 October 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Scottish Retail Consortium’s suggestion, in its Delivering Real Growth manifesto, that local referenda should be held whenever a local authority proposes an excessive increase in council tax.
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Question reference: S6W-41601
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 October 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of reports that Scotland’s college sector is no longer sustainable due to a 20% real-terms funding reduction.
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Question reference: S6W-41595
- Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 October 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that all patients diagnosed with epilepsy and their families are fully informed about the risks of Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP).
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Question reference: S6W-41602
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 October 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will respond to the reported warning by Colleges Scotland that the sector has reached “the limit of what doing more with less can achieve”.
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Question reference: S6W-41603
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 October 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 13 November 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many college courses and programmes have been cut or scaled back since 2021 due to funding pressures.
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