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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 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 18 December 2025
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Question reference: S6F-02748

  • Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2024
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 January 2024

To ask the First Minister, in light of the Scottish Government's plans to open the first safe drug consumption room in Glasgow later this year, what assurances he can provide that other areas of drugs policy, including spaces for residential rehabilitation, will not be deprioritised.

Question reference: S6F-02735

  • Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2024
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 January 2024

To ask the First Minister whether he will provide an update on how the Scottish Government will continue to protect tenants in the private rented sector after the expiry of the rent cap under the Cost of Living (Tenants Protection) (Scotland) Act 2022.

Question reference: S6F-02734

  • Asked by: Anas Sarwar, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2024
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 January 2024

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6F-02733

  • Asked by: Douglas Ross, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 22 January 2024
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 January 2024

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S6W-24720

  • Asked by: Clare Haughey, MSP for Rutherglen, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2024
  • Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Jenni Minto on 22 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to progress towards the World Health Organization (WHO) target to eliminate cervical cancer by 2030.

Question reference: S6W-24469

  • Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 12 January 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 22 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to support renewables manufacturing that is not within sites designated as Greenports.

Question reference: S6W-24417

  • Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 12 January 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 22 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what improvements have been made to fish health and mortality monitoring in the salmon farming industry since January 2018.

Question reference: S6W-24492

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for Midlothian South, Tweeddale and Lauderdale, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 12 January 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 22 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will support the principles of the Welfare of Dogs (Scotland) Bill to introduce a code of practice specifically aimed at prospective owners of dogs, which would place various duties on them to increase responsible ownership by educating and requiring them to sign a certificate that they and the breeder have understood and complied with the code.

Question reference: S6W-24455

  • Asked by: Pam Duncan-Glancy, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-23874 by Jenny Gilruth on 8 January 2024, whether it plans to uprate, by inflation in future years, the ringfenced funding that it provides to local authorities annually for the provision of additional support assistants.

Question reference: S6W-24448

  • Asked by: Annabelle Ewing, MSP for Cowdenbeath, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 11 January 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 22 January 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-19193 by Siobhian Brown on 27 June 2023, regarding the Hate Crime and Public Order (Scotland) Act 2021, when it plans to introduce the relevant commencement regulations.