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.
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To ask the Scottish Government whether it has a way of monitoring and recording how many schools utilise education resources on the Holocaust.
To ask the Scottish Government whether Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Limited will submit a response to the request for tenders by Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited for Shipyard Detailed Design and Build Contract of RoPax Vessels, which has a deadline of 6 December 2022.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will restructure and integrate Ferguson Marine (Port Glasgow) Limited under the tripartite agreement between Transport Scotland, Caledonian Maritime Assets Limited and CalMac Ferries Limited in order for it to be able to directly award future public sector shipbuilding contracts to any Scottish shipbuilding facility owned by it, on a similar basis to the operation of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution's All-weather Lifeboat Centre in Poole and Inshore Lifeboat Centre in East Cowes on the Isle of Wight.
To ask the Scottish Government how it assesses the return on investment in relation to capital expenditure.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it can take to convey to the UK Government the reported concerns of people seeking asylum regarding their experiences of the standard of living and welfare at the Alexander Thomson Hotel, in Glasgow.
To ask the Scottish Government what recent engagement it has had with the UK Government regarding the standard of accommodation at the Alexander Thomson Hotel, in Glasgow, for people seeking asylum.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will engage with the ScotWind leasing round winners, Scottish Power Renewables, SSE Renewables, Falck Renewables, Vattenfall, Shell, DEME, Ocean Winds, BayWa, Offshore Wind Power, Northland Power and Magnora, to request that they co-operate with BP in the development of a common Offshore Support Vessel (OSV) new-build programme to be designed and built in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-11686 by John Swinney on 28 October 2022, whether it will provide detail on what steps it will take to invest in innovation to boost productivity in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-11686 by John Swinney on 28 October 2022, whether it will provide detail on how it plans to expand international opportunities to boost productivity in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government whether Scottish Enterprise has undertaken an equalities impact assessment to inform its reported proposal to close all its office locations except those in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen.