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: S5O-03448
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 June 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether the UK Government has provided it with details about the Shared Prosperity Fund, which it claims will replace European structural funds, post-Brexit.
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Question reference: S5W-23745
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 June 2019
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Michael Matheson on 13 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it still plans to return Glasgow Prestwick Airport to the private sector.
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Question reference: S5O-03404
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 June 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 19 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made with devising and implementing the Coig tourism trail.
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Question reference: S5F-03407
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 June 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 June 2019
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government’s response is to recent figures showing that the number of women and girls playing football in Scotland has almost doubled in the last five years.
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Question reference: S5W-23048
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to save rare flora and fauna from extinction.
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Question reference: S5O-03245
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many police officers are currently deployed in Ayrshire, and how this compares with May 2007.
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Question reference: S5W-22464
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 April 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 1 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the reported rise in abuse, threats and incitement of violence toward civil servants and people who hold public office.
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Question reference: S5W-22465
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 02 April 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 30 April 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that its services that are delivered through Citizens Advice bureaux are equally accessible to people in council areas that have no bureau.
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Question reference: S5O-03135
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 April 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 April 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what impact it anticipates Brexit having on the supply of skilled labour.
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Question reference: S5O-03115
- Asked by: Kenneth Gibson, MSP for Cunninghame North, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 4 April 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the birth rate falling to its lowest level since records began, whether it will provide details of the steps that it will take to support people to have children, including supporting existing families to have more children.
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