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-23089
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 4 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister has responded to the Scottish Occupational Health Action Group's reported proposal for a Scottish Occupational Health Service provision.
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Question reference: S6W-23087
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Monday, 20 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 4 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what work it is doing with the UK Government to ensure that the proposed amendments to the UK Renters (Reform) Bill that would make it illegal for landlords and letting agents to apply a blanket ban on renting to people who receive benefits or to families with children can be extended to apply in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-22778
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 23 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what review it has undertaken of the impact of Regulation 6 of the Town and Country Planning (Fees for Applications) (Scotland) Regulations 2022, which provides planning authorities with the power to levy a surcharge of up to 25% on retrospective applications as a means of recovering the costs of undertaking enforcement investigations.
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Question reference: S6W-22957
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 21 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what investigations Consumer Scotland (a) has conducted since it was established and (b) plans to conduct.
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Question reference: S6W-22632
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 15 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-20967 by Paul McLennan on 14 September 2023, whether it will provide the data that has been returned in response to the question that was added to the HL3 data collection in 2019, asking “if a child is in the temporary accommodation placement", including the data that has been provided by all local authorities from April 2022.
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Question reference: S6O-02687
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 November 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what continued engagement it has had with the Scottish Land Commission about its proposal for compulsory sales orders since it first proposed them in August 2018.
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Question reference: S6O-02659
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what it estimates the financial cost will be of its recently announced council tax freeze policy.
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Question reference: S6O-02644
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 October 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what recent meetings it has had with neonatologists from NHS Lanarkshire.
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Question reference: S6W-21984
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 18 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-21426 by Paul McLennan on 2 October 2023, how many of these purchases were (a) second-hand from the (i) open market and (ii) with a tenant in-situ, and (b) off-the-shelf.
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Question reference: S6W-21985
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2023
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 18 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many homes built under the Affordable Housing Supply Programme since 2016 were (a) one-bed, (b) two-bed, (c) three-bed, (d) four-bed and (e) five-bed or more homes.