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-22025
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 30 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the UK Government’s reported plans to consult on stopping transgender people being treated in single-sex hospital wards, what its position is on implementing a similar policy in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-22332
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 20 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 25 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update following the public consultation on extending the animal licensing framework, particularly regarding the consideration of licensing commercial dog walkers.
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Question reference: S6F-02455
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 October 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 October 2023
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to reported concerns that parents are having to give up their jobs due to childcare costs.
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Question reference: S6W-21666
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 23 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the financial package that the UK Government announced for its Swimming Pool Support Fund, whether it will provide an update on what measures it has considered to provide additional support to the sector in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-21667
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 20 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will ensure the ability for the equal provision of services and facilities across all local authorities through the shared priorities that it hopes to agree in its proposed new deal for local government.
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Question reference: S6W-21664
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 20 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6O-02470 by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 September 2023, whether it will provide a breakdown of where it has allocated the additional Barnett consequential funding to, including how much has been allocated to (a) local authorities and (b) fund other priorities, such as social security.
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Question reference: S6W-21665
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 5 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what changes in its budget it is considering to prevent any further closures or reduction of essential community facilities and services.
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Question reference: S6W-20739
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 24 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 21 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on how much it has spent to date on its challenge of the decision of the UK Secretary of State for Scotland to issue an order under section 35 of the Scotland Act 1998 in respect of the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill.
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Question reference: S6W-20797
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 19 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the total tonnage is of waste resulting from the decommissioning of (a) onshore and (b) offshore wind turbines that has been exported overseas as waste between 2014 and 2022.
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Question reference: S6W-20737
- Asked by: Meghan Gallacher, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 19 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6O-02406 by Jenni Minto on 21 June 2023, whether it will provide an update on the work that it is undertaking regarding gender identity services for children and young people, and, in light of this work, whether it (a) will follow the approach of NHS England, which intends to only commission puberty supressing hormones as part of clinical research and (b) plans to commission a review of gender identity services for children and young people in Scotland.
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