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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 31 January 2026
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Question reference: S6W-07806

  • Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 5 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what action SEPA and local authorities have taken on the next round of their shared strategies and plans, and how this action is informed by the recommendations of any joint Scottish Government/COSLA working groups on these issues.

Question reference: S6W-07835

  • Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 5 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many cases of so-called Anglophobia have been recorded by Police Scotland in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S6W-07805

  • Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 5 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the priority list that was agreed by the National Prioritisation Advisory Group that it chaired on flood risk management schemes.

Question reference: S6W-07874

  • Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 5 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made on establishing the licencing scheme frameworks for local authorities to take forward its proposed registration requirements for short-term lets.

Question reference: S6W-08185

  • Asked by: Elena Whitham, MSP for Carrick, Cumnock and Doon Valley, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 22 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 5 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to implementing a rapid food production impact assessment of all existing and new legislation and policy affecting agricultural land use and practice, in order to avoid any undermining of the potential for, or increases to the costs of, food production.

Question reference: S6W-08138

  • Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 21 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 5 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that the standards set out in NHS service specifications for rare and complex diseases, such as cystic fibrosis, are adhered to, and to what extent these service specifications represent a statutory expectation of the minimum level of care that patients should expect to receive.

Question reference: S6W-07678

  • Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 5 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will issue revised guidance for the High Hedges (Scotland) Act 2013, in light of the opinion of Lady Carmichael regarding the petition for judicial review of 27 February 2020 (CSOH 22).

Question reference: S6W-08099

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 21 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 5 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what support is being put in place to enable people with long COVID to return to work; what assessment has been made of the numbers of people requiring such support, and whether it plans to develop an occupational health return-to-work support service for people with long COVID similar to the service reportedly starting in other UK nations.

Question reference: S6W-08127

  • Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 21 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 5 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that the highest ever number of medical students have been told that there are no places for them in NHS junior doctor training in 2022.

Question reference: S6W-08141

  • Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 21 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 5 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-07775 by Humza Yousaf on 19 April 2022, for what reason it is reportedly taking a different approach to NHS England.