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-33550
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 7 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the scientific evidence regarding the transmission of COVID-19 on which it based its decision to close gyms in areas subject to Level 4 restrictions.
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Question reference: S5W-33681
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 7 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will outline the scientific justification for its decision to not permit spectators, who would be situated outside and socially distanced from one another, at semi-professional football matches in areas subject to Level 3 restrictions.
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Question reference: S5O-04836
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 December 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to NFU Scotland’s call for Less Favoured Area Support Scheme payments for 2020 to be fully reinstated to 2018 rates.
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Question reference: S5W-33292
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 30 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that businesses in the catering equipment hire sector are able to access the same COVID-19-related business rates relief and hardship support grants as their counterparts in the wider hospitality industry.
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Question reference: S5W-33289
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 26 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it would consider increasing the person limit for wedding ceremonies, especially in levels 1 and 2, as a way to support the wedding industry.
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Question reference: S5W-33178
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 25 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that dentistry students from the 2019 cohort are receiving less funding and financial support compared with their predecessors.
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Question reference: S5W-33099
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 06 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 24 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what scientific evidence it has used to determine whether socially-distanced and COVID-19-secure group exercise classes are more likely to transmit the virus than individual exercise in large gyms.
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Question reference: S5W-32911
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 30 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 10 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many businesses in each local authority area are (a) eligible and (b) ineligible for the new contingency funding for (i) nightclubs and (ii) soft play centres that it announced on 27 October 2020; what evidence it received from each council regarding the number of such businesses in their area, and whether it will publish the guidance that it issued to assist them with this.
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Question reference: S5W-32396
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 2 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how much of the £25 million of reserve funding announced on 18 March 2020 from the £350 million of funding for communities during the COVID-19 pandemic has not been allocated and remains in reserve.
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Question reference: S5W-32051
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 24 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 15 October 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the First Minister's commitment to "providing resources for additional environmental health officers" in her statement on 22 September 2020 (Official Report, c.16), how many officers it considers require to be recruited; by what date additional officers should be recruited, and how much funding it will provide to enable this.