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-07676
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 31 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 19 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recently announced increase in resources, approximately how many men it forecasts will be treated through the Caledonia System in 2022.
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Question reference: S6W-07677
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 31 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 19 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many men were treated through the Caledonia System in 2021, and how many have been treated since it began.
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Question reference: S6W-07594
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 14 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what the next steps are in taking forward the recommendations of the report, Misogyny - A Human Rights Issue.
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Question reference: S6W-07438
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 31 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made in commissioning and completing independent research on the legal aid sector and levels of remuneration, as recommended in Legal Aid Payment Review Panel - Report to the Minister for Community Safety, published in July 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-07405
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 31 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government in how many schools the Equally Safe at School programme is running, and whether any formal feedback has been gathered from pupils who have been involved in the programme.
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Question reference: S6W-07402
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 29 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on any research that it has carried out into the cost of heat pump energy systems.
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Question reference: S6W-07403
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 29 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on any assistance it is giving households to install heat pump energy systems.
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Question reference: S6W-07404
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 29 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on any action it is taking to reduce energy bills for households.
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Question reference: S6W-07310
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 25 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether all SQA staff, who wish to, will automatically be transferred to a role in the new body/bodies and, if this is not the case, whether it can provide details of the (a) process whereby they will be able to be redeployed across the public sector and (b) timescales for this to take place, and, if the requested information is not yet available, by when it anticipates that it will be known.
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Question reference: S6W-07148
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 21 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will include prison data in the 18-week psychological therapies waiting time standard.
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