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-06107
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 26 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the Scottish Funding Council returned to it the £50 million underspend that it reported for 2015-16.
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Question reference: S5W-06106
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 26 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the Scottish Funding Council reported a £50 million underspend for 2015-16.
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Question reference: S5W-06249
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 26 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason its report, SCOTLAND CAN DO - Boosting Scotland’s Innovation Performance, makes no reference to UK Research and Innovation, Innovate UK or Research Councils UK.
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Question reference: S5W-05697
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 19 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 12 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many cases of people with shingles between the ages of (a) 50 and 69, (b) 70 and 79 and (b) 80 and 100 have been reported in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S5O-00518
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 22 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to prevent deaths from drowning.
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Question reference: S5F-00680
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 19 December 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 December 2016
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's response is to the call by the Association of Headteachers and Deputes in Scotland for the extension of powers to headteachers.
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Question reference: S5W-04879
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 5 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the shingles vaccine is not made available on the NHS to people aged 80 and over, and whether there are exceptions to this position.
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Question reference: S5F-00563
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 28 November 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 December 2016
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's position is on the ability of the education agencies to deliver the curriculum for excellence.
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Question reference: S5W-04540
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 07 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many GPs are registered but not practising.
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Question reference: S5W-04392
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 16 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how much in (a) total and (b) the current financial year, college (i) chairs and (ii) board members of individual (A) colleges and (B) regional boards are paid, and how this compares with the last financial year prior to regionalisation and merger reforms in the college sector.