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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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 24 November 2024
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Question reference: S6W-22697

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 November 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 15 November 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether members of the advisory group, which must be established as per section 29 of the Scottish National Investment Bank Act 2020, will be paid, and, if so, who will set the level of pay.

Question reference: S6W-22696

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 November 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 15 November 2023

To ask the Scottish Government what the recruitment process will be for the advisory group that is to be established as per section 29 of the Scottish National Investment Bank Act 2020.

Question reference: S6W-22695

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 06 November 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 15 November 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-20679 by Neil Gray on 31 August 2023, whether it will provide an update on the establishment of an advisory group as required in section 29 of the Scottish National Investment Bank Act 2020.

Question reference: S6W-22677

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 03 November 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 14 November 2023

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the MV Alfred has been chartered to serve the port of Stornoway, in light of reports that the ferry is incompatible with that port.

Question reference: S6F-02532

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 13 November 2023
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 November 2023

To ask the First Minister whether he will provide an update on when the Scottish Government will review its ban on alcohol consumption on ScotRail train services.  

Question reference: S6O-02652

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 November 2023

To ask the Scottish Government when it will outline details of its £80 million of financial support for the Scottish Cluster carbon capture project, which it announced in January 2022.  

Question reference: S6W-21396

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 18 September 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 2 October 2023

To ask the Scottish Government when it will review its ban on alcohol consumption on ScotRail services.

Question reference: S6O-02565

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 September 2023
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether the finance secretary plans to allocate to local authorities any funding from the block grant that has arisen as a result of Barnett consequential funding from the UK Government’s Swimming Pool Support Fund.

Question reference: S6O-02519

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 September 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 14 September 2023

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on when it will deliver its conclusions on the review into the dualling of the A96, which were due to be delivered in the first half of 2023.

Question reference: S6W-20679

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 August 2023
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 31 August 2023

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-19481 by Neil Gray on 18 July 2023, which confirms that an advisory group has not yet been established, what its position is on whether the Scottish Ministers are in breach of section 29 of the Scottish National Investment Bank Act 2020, in light of the Act being passed in January 2020, the Scottish National Investment Bank having been operational in lending public money, and the Act stating that the "Scottish Ministers must establish and maintain an advisory group to provide them with advice on the Bank’s objects, conduct and performance."