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-20199
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 5 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the call by Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland for it to invest in a universal and equal right to pulmonary rehab for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD).
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Question reference: S5W-19821
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what impact the Safe Drive, Stay Alive project has had on road safety in the Forth Valley area, and whether it will consider allocating additional funding outwith the local government settlement to support the initiative.
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Question reference: S5W-19822
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 20 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to reduce the single-person council tax discount to 10% and, if so, what its position is on introducing a concession for older people.
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Question reference: S5W-19823
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 20 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how much it expects to receive in Barnett consequentials from the UK Budget, and what its position is on allocating funds from this to support reinstating the Levenmouth rail link.
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Question reference: S5W-19387
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 1 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what the terms of reference are of the Directors of Planning Thrombectomy Advisory Group.
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Question reference: S5W-19388
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 15 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 1 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-18910 by Jeane Freeman on 27 September 2018, how consideration of evidence from acute stroke service reconfiguration elsewhere in the UK by the Thrombectomy Advisory Group will be used to improve aspects of acute stroke care, other than thrombectomy, such as access to thrombolysis and brain scanning.
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Question reference: S5O-02511
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 October 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when air passenger duty will be fully devolved.
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Question reference: S5O-02498
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 31 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what Social Security Scotland's full-time equivalent headcount will be by 31 December 2018.
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Question reference: S5F-02709
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 22 October 2018
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 October 2018
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's position is on the report from Chest, Heart & Stroke Scotland, which suggests that one in five patients are not receiving the support they require.
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Question reference: S5F-02657
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 October 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 4 October 2018
To ask the First Minister what action the Scottish Government is taking in response to reports that there has been the biggest rise in HIV infection in Scotland for three decades.