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
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Question reference: S6W-23645
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many volunteer pain patient representatives with known conditions have been appointed to its Pain Management Task Force and to each of its itemised seven sub-committees since 2022.
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Question reference: S6W-23638
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it will allocate from its Budget for the piloting of universal free school meals in secondary schools.
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Question reference: S6W-23637
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government on what date(s) it has met with local authorities to discuss the piloting of universal free school meals in secondary schools, and which local authorities or schools it expects will be participating in any such pilot.
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Question reference: S6W-23644
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Claire Baker (on behalf of the SPCB) on 19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what immediate action it is taking in light of reports that the Scottish Parliament building was forced to close to the public in October due to a lack of security staff.
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Question reference: S6W-22984
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider reviewing the current relationships, sexual health and parenthood (RSHP) education resources to ensure that sufficient education on abortion is included.
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Question reference: S6W-23573
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 14 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government on what date it plans to publish the final version of the publication, Reducing car use for a healthier, fairer and greener Scotland: A route map to achieve a 20 per cent reduction in car kilometres by 2030, which was committed to in the 2020 Climate Change Plan update and subject to consultation between January and April 2022.
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Question reference: S6W-23572
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 14 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its announcement on 7 November 2023, when it will provide an update on the anticipated publication date of the new Climate Change Plan; whether it will publish a timeline setting out the periods for public engagement and proposed parliamentary scrutiny of the new plan, and what time will be allocated, ahead of the statutory deadline, to permit an assessment and considered response to that engagement and scrutiny.
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Question reference: S6W-23353
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 14 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Rape Crisis Scotland campaign, Survivors Can’t Wait, which calls for emergency waiting list funding to be extended beyond March 2024 to save 28 jobs, and for long-term sustainable funding for Rape Crisis Centres across Scotland.
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Question reference: S6O-02903
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 December 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will reconsider its reported plans to downgrade the Wishaw Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.
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Question reference: S6W-23346
- Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether the topic of any Barnett consequential funding arising from the UK Government's policy of 75% rates relief for retail, hospitality and leisure premises for 2023-24 has been discussed at the weekly meetings between the Deputy First Minister and Cabinet Secretary for Finance and senior finance officials, and, if so, when it was (a) first and (b) last discussed.