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
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Question reference: S5O-04488
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 August 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what conditions it has set through its financial support for bus operators to keep services viable through the pandemic and as Scotland comes out of lockdown.
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Question reference: S5W-31037
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 12 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the results of any monitoring of nutritional requirements at care homes.
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Question reference: S5W-31040
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 12 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of the nutritional guidelines for food served in care homes.
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Question reference: S5W-30864
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 11 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reporting cases of COVID-19 by postcode, and not by region.
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Question reference: S5W-30355
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 3 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the communities secretary’s statement that the provision of funding for food over the school holidays represents an opportunity for it to learn about what is working, what it could do more of and how it might link policies with others, what work is being carried out with local authorities to improve the quality, value and quantity of food being provided, and whether it now plans to enshrine a right to food for all in law.
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Question reference: S5W-30068
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 19 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 29 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of death rates from COVID-19 being lower in many countries with a predominantly Asian or Black population, what information it has on the reasons why (a) Bangladeshi and (b) other BAME people are reportedly more at risk of dying from COVID-19 in the UK; what its position is on whether any increased risk is the result of structural racism, and which groups in Scotland have been identified as most at risk.
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Question reference: S5W-30637
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 27 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the response by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance on 9 July 2020 to questions regarding local government finance (Official Report, c. 49), when it will announce whether it will pass on to local authorities the consequentials from the UK Government’s announcement of £500 million funding for councils in England.
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Question reference: S5W-30636
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 27 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the response by the Cabinet Secretary for Finance on 9 July 2020 to questions regarding local government finance (Official Report, c. 49), when it will announce whether it will change primary legislation so that local authorities will not be required to produce balanced budgets, and would be able to reprofile debts incurred as a result of spending to address the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Question reference: S5W-30354
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 20 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the communities secretary’s statement that food provision should be delivered on a whole household, cash first principle, whether it will provide details of any guidance and support that it has provided to local authorities on the quality and value for money of either food or voucher provision for children entitled to free school meals.
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Question reference: S5W-30198
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 16 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what it believes the scientific basis and efficacy to be of the "five-mile" rule in its pandemic guidance, and for what reason it believes that five miles is more likely to restrict the spread of the virus than, for example, 20 miles.