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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 17 May 2025
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Question reference: S6W-03238

  • Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 September 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 4 October 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions have taken place between ministers and SEPA regarding the agency's role in addressing the biodiversity crisis.

Question reference: S6W-03206

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 September 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 4 October 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on establishing an annual appraisal of waste crime impacts.

Question reference: S6W-03173

  • Asked by: Tess White, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 4 October 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to a University of Aberdeen study that suggested that there was evidence of potential for an opioid problem associated with the influence of COVID-19 on elective orthopaedic services to emerge.

Question reference: S6W-03195

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 September 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 4 October 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what options it is considering to ensure that glass does not exit closed-loop recycling, if the forthcoming deposit return scheme does not include a re-melt target.

Question reference: S6W-03112

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 4 October 2021

To ask the Scottish Government how much of the £500 million for the Whole Family Wellbeing Fund announced in the Programme for Government will be allocated (a) to each local authority and (b) in each year.

Question reference: S6W-03126

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 20 September 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 4 October 2021

To ask the Scottish Government when options 1 and 2 in Scottish Government and COSLA guidance on self-directed support during the COVID-19 pandemic will be withdrawn, and how its experience of the wider use of allowing family members to be employed under self-directed support will inform its future policy.

Question reference: S6W-02614

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 02 September 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 4 October 2021

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what criteria it uses to determine whether countries are listed as red on its international travel and managed isolation regime, and what information it has on the support available to people from Scotland who travel to countries listed as amber, which are subsequently listed as red, resulting in a need to change travel plans at short notice.

Question reference: S6W-02625

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 September 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 4 October 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support the UK Government's investment in hydrogen as an alternative energy source, including the Acorn Hydrogen project in Aberdeenshire.

Question reference: S6W-03266

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 24 September 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 4 October 2021

To ask the Scottish Government what the estimated financial cost as a result of the increase in gas prices will be for (a) NHS Scotland, (b) local authorities and (C) all other areas of the public sector.

Question reference: S6W-03314

  • Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 24 September 2021
  • Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 4 October 2021

To ask the Scottish Government when its new Advisory Council will publish its 10-year National Strategy for Economic Transformation.