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: S5W-33568
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 7 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether there have been any changes to the eligibility criteria for businesses applying to the COVID-19 Strategic Framework Business Fund compared with those for the COVID-19 Restrictions Fund.
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Question reference: S5W-33570
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 7 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how much of the £48 million allocated in part to the COVID-19 (a) Restrictions Fund and (b) Business Hardship Fund has been spent, broken down by local authority.
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Question reference: S5W-33629
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 7 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether research is being carried out that is specific to the effects that gyms have on the spread of COVID-19.
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Question reference: S5W-33628
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 7 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to the reopening of gyms in Level 4 areas.
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Question reference: S5W-33638
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 7 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of charities now being eligible to apply for a temporary closure grant, whether it will backdate grant payments to cover the weeks when charities were not deemed eligible for this support.
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Question reference: S5W-33112
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 09 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 3 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will list all the devolved powers that it has asked to remain with the UK Government, and when it will assume day-to-day responsibility for each of these powers.
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Question reference: S5O-04835
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 December 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what support it has provided for hotels during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Question reference: S5W-33405
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 2 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what time on 11 December 2020 non-essential shops and other closed businesses in areas subject to Level 4 COVID-19 restrictions will be permitted to reopen.
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Question reference: S5W-33492
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 2 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether patients who received two rounds of IVF treatment prior to the change in cycle recommendations, which were implemented on 1 April 2017, will be allowed to have a third cycle of treatment, in line with the service that is now being offered on the NHS.
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Question reference: S5W-33307
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a time limit for the level 4 restrictions to be in place for non-retail businesses to allow for effective planning.
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