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-13565
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 January 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 12 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to include all ethnic minority groups in the Interim Governance Group to Develop National Anti-Racist Infrastructure.
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Question reference: S6W-13566
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 January 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 12 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether critical race theory is government policy with regards to issues under the remit of the Minister for Equalities and Older People.
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Question reference: S6O-01791
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 January 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what economic analysis it considered prior to awarding ferry contracts reportedly worth £115 million to a shipyard in Turkey.
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Question reference: S6W-13041
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 10 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether there will be an opportunity for UK suppliers to supply into the contract for two ferries awarded to Cemre Marin Endustri in Turkey by Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL), or whether the shipbuilder will determine the supply chain.
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Question reference: S6W-13042
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 10 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether the future refit, maintenance and repair of the two Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) commissioned ferries under construction by Cemre Marin Endustri in Turkey will take place in (a) Scotland or (b) the wider UK.
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Question reference: S6W-13043
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 10 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) assesses social value during tendering for shipbuilding contracts.
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Question reference: S6W-13039
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-12299 by Shona Robison on 1 December 2022, when it expects to publish its response to the final report of the Independent Commission of Inquiry into Asylum Provision in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-13044
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 10 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited (CMAL) scores the social value of shipbuilding tenders from overseas shipbuilders with the same weighting as tenders from Scotland or UK shipbuilders.
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Question reference: S6W-13096
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 9 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the current composition is of the ScotRail Trains Limited train operating company fleet in terms of ownership by third-party rolling stock companies.
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Question reference: S6W-13054
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 9 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what steps Scottish Water is taking to address any dilapidated structural condition of the category B listed Partick Sewage Pumping Station at 35 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow.
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