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-30522
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 28 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is aware of there being a more detailed local picture of COVID-19 outbreaks and deaths compiled at council ward level across the country, and, if so, whether it will publish this.
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Question reference: S5W-30356
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 27 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when indoor swimming pools will be permitted to reopen, and what additional social distancing and hygiene measures will be put in place.
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Question reference: S5W-30382
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 22 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is encouraging large retail stores to implement a free click and collect service for customers to reduce the risk of further COVID-19 infection as lockdown measures are eased.
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Question reference: S5W-30569
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 22 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the COVID-19 outbreak, how it will ensure that conditions in shared tenements with properties that are let will not impact on (a) residents' and (b) community health.
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Question reference: S5W-30381
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 21 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how it will seek to minimise the distress to children of potentially invasive and regular COVID-19 testing in schools.
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Question reference: S5W-30327
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 16 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many public buildings use both external aluminium composite material (ACM) and non-ACM flammable cladding systems, and what plans are in place for the removal of flammable ACM from these.
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Question reference: S5W-29832
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-28122 by Jeane Freeman on 8 June 2020, how many antibody tests have been carried out on a (a) daily and (b) weekly basis, and how these figures will be reported.
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Question reference: S5W-29833
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 12 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 26 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many people to date have been captured in the test, trace, isolate, support strategy as a result of coming into contact with someone who has tested positive for COVID-19, and how these figures will be regularly reported to the public.
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Question reference: S5W-29878
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 12 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 24 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update regarding the position with one-to-one sports coaching during the phases of the route map out of the COVID-19 lockdown.
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Question reference: S5W-29879
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 12 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 19 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide specific social distancing guidance for the use of communal or shared tenement gardens.