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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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 3 February 2026
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Question reference: S5W-00880

  • Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government when it last met (a) ScotRail and (b) Hitachi Rail Europe to discuss the configuration of the class 385 trains on order.

Question reference: S5W-00897

  • Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 20 June 2016
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 July 2016

To ask the Scottish Government which ScotRail stations are unstaffed.

Question reference: S5F-00138

  • Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 27 June 2016
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 June 2016

To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's position is on the industrial dispute between the RMT and ScotRail.

Question reference: S5W-00601

  • Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 June 2016
  • Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 24 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government when its research into the tied-pub sector will be (a) completed and (b) published.

Question reference: S5W-00678

  • Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 10 June 2016
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 23 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what the final cost is of the process of the tender for the Clyde and Hebrides Ferry Services Contract.

Question reference: S5O-00067

  • Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 June 2016
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact of post offices on town centre economies.

Question reference: S5W-00676

  • Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 10 June 2016
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government on what dates the current Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport has visited the Royal Alexandra Hospital and when she last visited the children's ward.

Question reference: S5W-00682

  • Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 10 June 2016
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-00318 by Humza Yousaf on 8 June 2016, whether Serco Caledonian Ferries Ltd’s final bid for the contract contained information that Transport Scotland had previously objected to or rejected during the tender period and, if so, what this was.

Question reference: S5W-00679

  • Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 10 June 2016
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-00318 by Humza Yousaf on 8 June 2016, whether it will list each proposed change to the contract that was deemed to be non-compliant, also broken down by the section of the instructions to participants that it fell under.

Question reference: S5W-00681

  • Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 10 June 2016
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 June 2016

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-00318 by Humza Yousaf on 8 June 2016, whether Transport Scotland had advised Serco Caledonian Ferries Ltd that its interim bid for the contract was at risk of non-compliance and, if so, when.