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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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 1 December 2024
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Question reference: S6W-31825

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how many patients have had treatment in a private hospital paid for by the NHS in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S6W-31837

  • Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication of the Scottish Biodiversity Delivery Plan 2024–2030 on 27 November 2024, how it will increase public grant support to levels that will meet its ambition to regenerate native woodland landscapes, particularly to reduce the browsing impacts from deer and sheep

Question reference: S6W-31823

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how many road accidents there have been in each of the last five years in which a (a) defective and (b) poor road surface was recorded as a contributory factor, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S6W-31834

  • Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has considered removing the requirement for a formal wedding ceremony in order for couples to get married.

Question reference: S6W-31727

  • Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the discovery of hundreds of dead fish in Linlithgow Loch on 12 November 2024, what action SEPA has taken in response to this possible pollution event.

Question reference: S6W-31817

  • Asked by: Keith Brown, MSP for Clackmannanshire and Dunblane, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the (a) value of the role of physician associate, (b) function that physician associates have in supporting GPs and (c) contribution that physician associates make to patients and the NHS.

Question reference: S6W-31827

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-04033 by Graeme Dey on 1 November 2021, how much grant funding it has provided to each local authority to purchase and/or lease zero emission vehicles in each year since 2021-22.

Question reference: S6W-31824

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government how many appointments by ministers to positions on (a) public bodies and (b) NHS boards there have been in each year since 2007 in which the appointee has declared a political affiliation, broken down by political party declared.

Question reference: S6W-31843

  • Asked by: Martin Whitfield, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government (a) how many and (b) what percentage of schools have (i) reduced, (ii) increased and (iii) maintained the hours allocated to physical education in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S6W-31789

  • Asked by: Paul O'Kane, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 November 2024
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 13 December 2024

To ask the Scottish Government what support it has provided to local authorities for the provision of school (a) libraries and (b) librarians in the current financial year, and in each year since 2021.