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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 22 December 2025
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Question reference: S6W-08312

  • Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 May 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on which stakeholders offered views on the topic of option fee agreements in response to Crown Estate Scotland’s New offshore wind leasing for Scotland: Discussion Document, published in May 2018; whether it was one of those stakeholders, and, if it was, what views it offered, and whether the comments of those stakeholders were shared with it.

Question reference: S6W-08366

  • Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 May 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 16 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether Education Scotland provides advice on the purchase of programmes and resources to support literacy.

Question reference: S6W-08311

  • Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 May 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 16 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it (a) agreed, (b) objected or (c) offered any other advice in response to Crown Estate Scotland’s proposal to have a “a minimum level of fee” per km2 of seabed area and “not place a ceiling on the applicant valuation”, contained within the New offshore wind leasing for Scotland: Discussion Document, published in May 2018, and whether it will publish all (i) correspondence and (ii) minutes of meetings it had with Crown Estate Scotland on this issue.

Question reference: S6W-08367

  • Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 May 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 16 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what role educational research plays in relation to informing approaches to literacy in schools.

Question reference: S6W-08473

  • Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 10 May 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 16 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support communities affected by recent bank branch closures, and what representations it is making to those banks regarding their proposals to close branches. 

Question reference: S6W-08425

  • Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 06 May 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 16 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to tackle Scotland’s reported litter problem, in light of comments by Keep Scotland Beautiful regarding a "looming litter emergency", and whether local authorities will be given support to help address this.

Question reference: S6W-08401

  • Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 06 May 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 16 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the details and outcome of any consideration that (a) the Deputy First Minister and (b) any other member of the Cabinet has undertaken regarding whether the Self-Isolation Support Grant should be paid at the equivalent of the Living Wage.

Question reference: S6W-08347

  • Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 06 May 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 16 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-05329 by Ivan McKee on 27 January 2022, whether the parent company guarantee that was signed with Liberty House in 2016 could be affected by the reported visits to Liberty Steel offices by the Serious Fraud Office as part of its investigation of GFG Alliance.

Question reference: S6W-08420

  • Asked by: Stuart McMillan, MSP for Greenock and Inverclyde, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 06 May 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 16 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the work of the Empire, Slavery and Scotland's Museums steering group.

Question reference: S6W-08254

  • Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 13 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the UK Department for (a) International Trade and (b) Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy regarding any impact on Scotland of the reported exclusion of investment protection for fossil fuel investments in the Energy Charter Treaty.