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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

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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 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 4 February 2026
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Question reference: S6W-11494

  • Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 October 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 25 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of how much funding it has invested in the sustainable development of Scotland’s historic estate in (a) 2021-22 and (b) 2022-23, in line with the Scottish National Party 2021 manifesto commitment.

Question reference: S6W-11491

  • Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 October 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 25 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government in what ways it has increased funding available to artists in line with the Scottish National Party 2021 manifesto commitment.

Question reference: S6W-11472

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 10 October 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 25 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what modelling it has been undertaken to calculate the updated level of unmet need in adult social care since the publication of the Independent Review of Adult Social Care.

Question reference: S6W-11339

  • Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 October 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 25 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how it is supporting Comhairle nan Eilean Siar’s care services, in light of the reported loss of 30 staff since the start of 2022.

Question reference: S6W-11326

  • Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 October 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 25 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to tackle any advertising and promoting of vaping products which may be seen as attractive to under-18s, following the conclusion of its consultation on tightening the rules on advertising and promoting vaping products on 29 April 2022.

Question reference: S6W-11107

  • Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 29 September 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 25 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government for what reasons the figures for (a) Government subsidy and (b) farebox revenue in the Norwegian ferry sector are redacted in the benchmarking section of Project Neptune’s Strategic Framework for Options for the CHFS Network, and whether it will arrange for those figures to be published.

Question reference: S6W-11439

  • Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 07 October 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 25 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of felling trees close to low-voltage power lines that could be damaged in adverse weather.

Question reference: S6W-11416

  • Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 07 October 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 25 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-11199 by Neil Gray on 4 October 2022, whether it will list the meetings that its (a) ministers and (b) officials have had with COSLA between March 2022 and October 2022 to discuss Scotland's welcome to Ukrainian refugees.

Question reference: S6W-11417

  • Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 07 October 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 25 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what consultation it has carried out on its review of the Homes for Ukraine scheme.

Question reference: S6W-11406

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 07 October 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 25 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has established the short life working group tasked with making recommendations on how clinically-appropriate use of Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) equipment in the provision of NHS community eyecare services can be more effectively supported, and, if so, what the membership of the group is, and when the group last met.