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-34342
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 January 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 February 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government to the Convener of the Finance and Public Administration Committee on 27 January 2025, how the Joint Working Group on Sources of Local Government Funding and Council Tax Reform is assessing the introduction of council tax premiums on second and empty homes.
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Question reference: S6W-34334
- Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 January 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 February 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many reports in each of the five calendar years prior to the Fireworks and Pyrotechnic Articles (Scotland) Act 2022 coming into force were made to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service (COPFS) under the (a) Explosives Act 1875, (b) Environmental Protection Act 1990, (c) Fireworks Act 2003, (d) Fireworks (Scotland) Regulations 2004, (e) Antisocial Behaviour (Scotland) Act 2004, for the inappropriate use of fireworks and pyrotechnic articles, (f) Manufacture and Storage of Explosives Regulations 2005 and (g) Pyrotechnic Articles (Safety) Regulations 2010, and how many subsequent (i) prosecutions and (ii) convictions there were.
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Question reference: S6W-34344
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 January 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 February 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how many so-called Golden Hello payments for new GPs each NHS board has made in each since these were introduced,
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Question reference: S6W-34348
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 January 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 February 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what steps are being taken to ensure that funds currently being spent on locum psychiatrists are redirected into sustainable, permanent psychiatry roles that will improve workforce conditions.
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Question reference: S6W-34347
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 January 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 February 2025
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to address the reported workforce crisis in relation to psychiatry, in light of the Royal College of Psychiatrists in Scotland Locum Psychiatrist Survey, which states that Scotland’s psychiatric workforce is not growing sufficiently to keep pace with the rising scale of demand for services, and that workforce gaps have led to the widespread recruitment of locum psychiatrists, raising patient safety concerns.
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Question reference: S6W-34345
- Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 January 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 February 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how it is (a) tracking and (b) providing support for any demand for diagnosis, assessment and support for neurodevelopmental conditions in children and young people, in light of the child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) waiting lists having been separated to remove these conditions.
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Question reference: S6W-34340
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 January 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 February 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the information released under the freedom of information request FOI/202400435537, by what date the minutes of the meeting of the Joint Working Group on Sources of Local Government Funding and Council Tax Reform on (a) 18 April and (b) 24 October 2024 will be published.
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Question reference: S6W-34367
- Asked by: Foysol Choudhury, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 January 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 February 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding its draft Budget 2025-26, how much funding it plans to allocate to NHS capital projects, once the replacements for the Edinburgh Eye Pavilion, Monklands Hospital and Belford Hospital in Fort William are accounted for.
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Question reference: S6W-34351
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 January 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 February 2025
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to distribute the additional £4.5 million in its draft Budget 2025-26 for long COVID, myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) and other similar conditions.
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Question reference: S6W-34339
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 January 2025
- Current Status: Answer expected on 28 February 2025
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Local Government to the Convener of the Finance and Public Administration Committee on 27 January 2025, by what date the Joint Working Group on Sources of Local Government Funding and Council Tax Reform will advise on further changes to council tax premiums on second and empty homes.
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