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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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 6 June 2025
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Question reference: S6W-11912

  • Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 04 November 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 15 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a list of every event that received funding from the Scotland’s Events Recovery Fund, broken down by (a) how much funding each event received and (b) local authority area.

Question reference: S6W-11661

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 21 October 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it will take to support voluntary sector employees over the coming months as living costs continue to rise.

Question reference: S6W-11667

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 21 October 2022

    Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 15 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish Safer Buildings Accord has been agreed.

Question reference: S6T-00975

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 14 November 2022
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that nursing staff at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital are routinely left in charge of up to 30 patients and are forced to conduct 5.00 am bed washes due to staff shortages.

Question reference: S6T-00960

  • Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 14 November 2022
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that its claim that Scotland has 25% of Europe’s offshore wind potential lacks evidence and that it knew that there was no basis for it.

Question reference: S6T-00961

  • Asked by: Maggie Chapman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 14 November 2022
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 November 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to Baroness Helena Kennedy KC's final report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into Asylum Provision in Scotland, published on Friday, which highlights avoidable failings in the provision of care to New Scots during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Question reference: S6F-01534

  • Asked by: Pam Gosal, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 14 November 2022
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 November 2022

To ask the First Minister whether the Scottish Government supports the introduction of a domestic abuse register.

Question reference: S6F-01535

  • Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 14 November 2022
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 November 2022

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to the report, Health Inequalities in Scotland, by the Fraser of Allander Institute.

Question reference: S6F-01528

  • Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Monday, 14 November 2022
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 November 2022

To ask the First Minister when the Cabinet will next meet.

Question reference: S6F-01522

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 14 November 2022
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 November 2022

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government anticipates the impact will be on Scotland of today’s Autumn Statement.