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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government how many wind farm applications that have been turned down by local authorities have been subsequently (a) approved and (b) rejected by ministers on appeal since July 2016.
To ask the Scottish Government what progress the NHS is making with reducing bed blocking.
To ask the Scottish Government what progress Education Scotland is making with increasing the number of school inspections.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what action it is taking to ensure that children receive timely treatment for mental health issues.
To ask the Scottish Government what progress the NHS is making with increasing the number of medical professionals.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5O-01072 by Alasdair Allan on 7 June 2017 (Official Report, c. 31), for what reason there is only one Scottish Development International office in South America.
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to concerns regarding police response times to recent incidents at Dunfermline Bus Station, despite the area being monitored by a CCTV control centre.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve police response times.
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body how many potentially lethal weapons have been seized by security staff in 2017.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to improve cycling infrastructure, in light of recent research by Sustrans Scotland, which highlighted that T- junctions and roundabouts possess the highest number of collisions.