Questions and answers
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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Question reference: S6W-39655
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether Transport Scotland will adopt the Clyde Tunnel as a national trunk road asset, such as the Kingston and Erskine bridges, due to the reported strategic regional nature of the tunnel to the West of Scotland trunk road network and the reported disproportionately higher cost to operate and maintain it borne by Glasgow City Council relative to the budget typically required for a standard non-trunk road.
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Question reference: S6W-39238
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on what the current 10 largest private firms in Glasgow are, broken down by (a) employee headcount and (b) turnover.
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Question reference: S6W-39627
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-19936 by Dorothy Bain on 1 August 2023, how many reported cases of rape in each year since 2023-24 have been subject to a diversion from prosecution.
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Question reference: S6W-39626
- Asked by: Kevin Stewart, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has carried out an analysis of the outcomes of the Public Bodies (Joint Working) (Scotland) Act 2014.
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Question reference: S6W-39647
- Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what work it has carried out regarding the banning of peat usage in commercial horticulture.
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Question reference: S6W-39656
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will facilitate and promote the adoption of the Clyde Tunnel as a regional transport asset by the Glasgow City Region local authorities, and co-funded via Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, or a new special purpose body, to restore the combined regional authority approach to trunk road infrastructure in the area that existed via Strathclyde Roads from 1975 to 1996.
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Question reference: S6W-39623
- Asked by: Kevin Stewart, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to ensure that voices of lived experience are represented on Integration Joint Boards.
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Question reference: S6W-39652
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many of the 600 expressions of interest, which its Cladding Remediation Programme has received via the Single Open Call, relate to buildings that it was already aware may need an assessment or remedial work, broken down by the type of applicant.
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Question reference: S6W-39660
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to ensure that NICE-compliant specialist services for myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) are introduced by NHS boards, and that these services comply with the principles contained in the delivery plan for ME/CFS to ensure that people in Scotland with the condition do not receive inadequate care compared with those in England.
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Question reference: S6W-39617
- Asked by: Kevin Stewart, MSP for Aberdeen Central, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 27 August 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the policy brief by the Rowett Institute, Hemp Cake As A Feed Source For Scotland.
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