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-10267
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 12 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 1 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many cases of Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease have been reported in Scotland in each year since 1996.
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Question reference: S6W-10000
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 22 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what the estimated start date is for the dualling of the Birnam to Jubilee Bridge stretch of the A9 Perth to Inverness road.
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Question reference: S6W-10073
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 16 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many children in (a) Perth and Kinross and (b) Fife have received a free bicycle since the commitment was made to offer free bicycles to children who cannot afford them.
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Question reference: S6W-10074
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 16 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many young people have received a free bus pass through the Young Persons’ (Under 22s) Free Bus Travel scheme in (a) Perth and Kinross and (b) Fife since it was announced by both local authorities.
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Question reference: S6W-09348
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 12 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what the reasons were for its decision that school children in Scotland would not automatically receive the commemorative book for Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee.
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Question reference: S6W-09347
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 6 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what steps were taken to promote the offer of a free commemorative book on Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee to school children in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-09350
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 6 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether parents or carers of children can request a copy of the commemorative book for Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee directly and, if this is possible, how they do so.
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Question reference: S6W-09349
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 6 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many schools requested copies of the commemorative book for Her Majesty’s Platinum Jubilee for their pupils, broken down by local authority area.
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Question reference: S6W-09220
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 23 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many mental health patients from Scotland have been admitted as inpatients to hospitals and other settings in England and Wales in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S6O-01265
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 June 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how the reported proposed real-terms cuts to the budget of Audit Scotland could impact on its work.
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