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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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 1 July 2025
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Question reference: S6W-39094

  • Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 29 July 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-36795 by Jenni Minto on 7 May 2025, whether it can provide any figures on the proportion of fragility fractures in patients currently identified by fracture liaison services.

Question reference: S6W-39101

  • Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 29 July 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how much of the Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Fund has been allocated to the Scottish Borders.

Question reference: S6W-39090

  • Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 29 July 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports that the NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde’s South Sector Fracture Liaison Service, which provides services for patients across the country, has significantly reduced the time taken to identify fragility fractures in patients, and the Scottish Parliament motion S6M-17886 highlighting that the service won the William Cullen Prize for Innovation, whether it is aware of the work undertaken by this service and the results that it has achieved, and what mechanisms it has in place to share good practice in fracture prevention across the country.

Question reference: S6W-39058

  • Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 29 July 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to ensure that (a) local authorities and (b) other public bodies are adequately resourced and supported to prevent, detect and respond to cyberattacks, particularly in the context of the Scottish Cyber Coordination Centre’s remit and the updated Public Sector Cyber Resilience Framework.

Question reference: S6W-39100

  • Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 29 July 2025

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what steps it is taking to make the parliamentary estate more pollinator-friendly, and whether these steps include (a) planting a more diverse array of plants for wild pollinators, (b) encouraging nature across the parliamentary estate more generally and (c) moving away from keeping bees in hives, in light of reports that organisations such as the Bumblebee Conservation Trust state that the latter is not a sustainable practice.

Question reference: S6W-39074

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 30 June 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 28 July 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on progress regarding the commitment in its strategy, Genomics in Scotland: Building our Future, which was published in April 2024, to develop a sustainable funding model to allow new tests approved through the SG-TAG process to be funded and implemented as quickly as possible following an SMC approval of a medicine with associated genomic testing to help ensure that patients have access to potentially lifesaving targeted cancer medicines.

Question reference: S6W-39077

  • Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 30 June 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 28 July 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is regarding the new Police Scotland Interim Guidance - Searching of transgender persons and searching by transgender police officers and police staff, including that transgender detainees can ask for a separate area search, meaning that one half of their body will be searched by one biological sex officer and the other half of their body will be searched by a different biological sex officer.

Question reference: S6W-39080

  • Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 30 June 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 28 July 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, as part of the initiative to provide more specialist clinical care in the community, as detailed in the Health and Social Care Renewal Framework, whether increased specialist support in local settings will be available for people with inflammatory bowel disease in order to allow those with Crohn’s disease or colitis to manage their condition closer to home.

Question reference: S6W-39082

  • Asked by: Jamie Greene, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Monday, 30 June 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 28 July 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has undertaken of the economic impact of hybrid and remote working policies on city centre economies, and whether it will publish any such data.

Question reference: S6W-39079

  • Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 30 June 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 28 July 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the potential of embedding specialist support practitioners, such as specialist nurses, dieticians, and psychologists, within local settings, in order to (a) improve (i) access to holistic care and (ii) the management of long-term conditions, such as Crohn’s disease and colitis, closer to home and (b) prevent avoidable hospital admissions.