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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 19 December 2025
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Question reference: S6W-42212

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 5 December 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what impact its publication, Equipment and Adaptations Review: Guidance on Provision 2023, has had on waiting times for the supply of mobility aids, other daily living aids and complex assistive technologies.

Question reference: S6W-42193

  • Asked by: Carol Mochan, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 5 December 2025

To ask the Scottish Government on what date the planning cycle for the NHS Scotland 2025-26 winter preparedness plan began.

Question reference: S6W-42409

  • Asked by: Clare Adamson, MSP for Motherwell and Wishaw, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 04 December 2025
  • Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Angus Robertson on 5 December 2025

To ask the Scottish Government when the Culture Fair Work Taskforce will publish its recommendations.

Question reference: S6W-42209

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 27 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 5 December 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what impact the collapse of NRS Healthcare Limited, which supplied mobility aids and complex assistive technologies, has had on NHS Scotland and social services across Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-42011

  • Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Monday, 01 December 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 5 December 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what the highest number of times is that an individual adult social care service user has had their care package cancelled and subsequently reassigned in a single year, since 2020.

Question reference: S6W-42156

  • Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 5 December 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what specific actions it has taken to advance the "in principle" agreement on role expansion for firefighters between the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS).

Question reference: S6W-42143

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 5 December 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how each of the responders to the Public Contracts Scotland notice for expressions of interest in tendering for the construction of the two new freight flex vessels to serve the Aberdeen-Kirkwall/Lerwick route became aware of the notice.

Question reference: S6W-42139

  • Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 5 December 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, in accordance with section 61 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2025, when it plans to take forward regulations to change the economic index for the uprating of mobile home pitch fees.

Question reference: S6W-42155

  • Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 5 December 2025

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason there been no progress on the "in principle" agreement on role expansion for firefighters reached in 2022 between the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) and the Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS).

Question reference: S6W-42154

  • Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 November 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 5 December 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what cost-benefit analysis it has carried out of a potential role expansion for firefighters.