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-04464
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 August 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 August 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what additional funding the finance secretary has made available to allow schools to return from 11 August.
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Question reference: S5W-30425
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 31 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what the key criteria will be for it to assess the proposals for a new medical school in Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-30424
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 31 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when work will resume on developing proposals for a new medical school in Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-30721
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 31 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-29800 by Jean Freeman on 10 July 2020, whether construction commenced in June 2020 and, if so, what form this took.
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Question reference: S5W-30422
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 30 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its contingency plans are in the event that the ongoing legal challenge concerning Lot 1 of the R100 high-speed broadband programme is not resolved before 31 December 2020.
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Question reference: S5W-30423
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 30 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government which institutions have submitted expressions of interest in developing a new medical school in Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-30421
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 28 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of how funding from the Bed and Breakfast Hardship Fund has been allocated by each local authority.
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Question reference: S5W-30419
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 28 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many applications were submitted to the Bed and Breakfast Hardship Fund, and how many were successful.
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Question reference: S5W-30420
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 28 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many applications to the Bed and Breakfast Hardship Fund were submitted by businesses paying rates to The Highland Council, and how many were successful.
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Question reference: S5W-30426
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what the average population of HMP Inverness has been in each (a) year and (b) month since 1 January 2018.