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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 28 January 2026
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Question reference: S6W-11048

  • Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions regarding public ferry contracts it has had with private operators in Scotland since 1 October 2016, and when the last such meeting took place.

Question reference: S6W-11074

  • Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 5 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether Highlands and Islands Enterprise has formally excluded companies or organisations that have complained about the award of loans or grants from receiving them.

Question reference: S6W-11133

  • Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what projections or estimates it has for the amount of money that will be collected through the implementation of Low Emission Zones and the subsequent penalties imposed.

Question reference: S6W-11119

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will review, and consider increasing, the sum of £74 million that has been allocated to the Community Bus Fund, in light of reports that the total cost of bus franchising in Manchester alone is estimated to be £200 million.

Question reference: S6W-11099

  • Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 5 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether Fampridine will be made available on the NHS for people living with multiple sclerosis.  

Question reference: S6W-11077

  • Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 5 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether Highlands and Islands Enterprise needs to demonstrate best value when attempting to address market failure in particular companies.

Question reference: S6W-11213

  • Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-10441 by Jenny Gilruth on 20 September 2022, in light of it being late September, how it defines “later this year”; whether it will provide a specific date or more specific timescale for the publication of the findings; for what reason it did not provide a specific date or more specific timescale in its answer; whether there has been a delay to the publication, and, if so, for what reasons.

Question reference: S6W-11104

  • Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the ministerial statement by the Minister for Transport on 8 September 2022 on the Future of Scottish Ferries, what definition of a “period of prolonged disruption” it will use to convene meetings of the proposed ferries resilience group.

Question reference: S6W-11106

  • Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will list the private ferry companies that have expressed an interest in bidding for the Clyde and Hebrides ferry services contract on each occasion that it was put out to tender.

Question reference: S6W-11317

  • Current Status: Withdrawn