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-08367
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 16 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what role educational research plays in relation to informing approaches to literacy in schools.
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Question reference: S6W-08369
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 16 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is aware of schools reportedly reducing subject choice as a result of budget pressures, and whether this was a policy intention when it set local authority budgets.
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Question reference: S6W-08188
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 12 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how NHS Scotland makes patient records available in the event that patients require NHS treatment elsewhere in the UK.
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Question reference: S6W-08364
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 12 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the use of synthetic phonics in the teaching of literacy.
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Question reference: S6W-08365
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 12 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what training teachers receive in synthetic phonics.
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Question reference: S6W-08352
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 12 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support the provision of and access to allotments.
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Question reference: S6W-08349
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 12 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when it expects jury trials to resume in Dumfries.
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Question reference: S6W-08196
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 10 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what role NHS boards have in monitoring the performance of dental practices treating NHS patients and the availability of NHS treatment.
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Question reference: S6W-08195
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 10 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will grant an extension to businesses that were awarded grants through the COVID-19 Business Ventilation Fund but which did not receive notice from Dumfries and Galloway Council in time to have works carried out.
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Question reference: S6W-08362
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 10 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-08000 by Kate Forbes on 25 April 2022, how many candidates with agricultural experience applied for the recently advertised vacancies.