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
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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Question reference: S6W-01972
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 23 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils have missed more than (i) 10% and (ii) 50% of class time in their school since schools reopened in March 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-01971
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 17 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of (a) primary and (b) secondary school pupils have missed more than (i) 10% and (ii) 50% of class time in their school in each year since 2017-18.
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Question reference: S6W-01855
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government which age groups are most likely to be affected by long COVID.
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Question reference: S6W-01853
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 13 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to limit the incidence of long COVID in young people.
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Question reference: S6W-01852
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 9 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is gathering data to determine the impact of long COVID on education.
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Question reference: S6W-00763
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to ensure that secure COVID-19 vaccination status documents will be recognised when used by people travelling from Scotland to Norway.
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Question reference: S6W-00762
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 5 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it has put in place to ensure that workers who are travelling to Norway, and who have been vaccinated against COVID-19, are not unnecessarily required to quarantine.
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Question reference: S6W-01922
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 5 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-01741 by Jamie Hepburn on 27 July 2021, whether it will make the support payments made to mature students equal to those made to younger students.
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Question reference: S6W-01192
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 2 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will guarantee funding the continued provision of early learning and childcare for P1 deferrals beginning in August (a) 2021 and (b) 2022.
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Question reference: S6W-01158
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 30 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what the absence rate for pupils has been between April and June 2021 and how this rate compares to to the absence rates in each of the academic years since 2017/18.
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