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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 10 January 2026
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Question reference: S6W-10191

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 05 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S6W-09248 and S6W-09249 by Shona Robison on 20 July 2022, how many of the 15 buildings using its grant-based approach (a) have (i) been approached to take up and (ii) requested directly commissioned assessments, (b) successfully procured their own surveyors and fire engineers and (c) have an assessment underway.

Question reference: S6W-10198

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 05 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-09252 by Shona Robison on 21 July 22, what the expenditure has been on the (a) Cladding Remediation Unit and (b) Single Building Assessment in each year since 2017, broken down by type of spending.

Question reference: S6W-10193

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 05 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how the single building assessment is designed to take account of any risk of electric vehicle fires, whether any specific assessment protocols are included in the assessment to respond to any such risks and, if this is the case, whether it will provide the details of any such protocols.

Question reference: S6W-10188

  • Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 05 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-09619 by Shona Robison on 19 July 2022, whether it will (a) compile and (b) require local authorities to compile this information to establish (i) the progress being made to remediate buildings, and (b) how much remediation is being conducted (A) with the support of the Scottish Government and (B) privately.

Question reference: S6W-10395

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 6 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will ensure that adequate public research is undertaken to quantify the risk and probability of the spread of giardiasis, so-called beaver fever, before any reintroduction of beavers into freshwater communities.

Question reference: S6W-10432

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 6 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to encourage individual sponsors to house Ukrainian refugees.

Question reference: S6W-10229

  • Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 6 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to review its New Scots strategy, which is due to expire in 2022.

Question reference: S6W-10396

  • Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 6 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many appeals to the R100 programme have been received from people who live in the North East Scotland region and how this number compares to any received from other areas of Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-10429

  • Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 6 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how much agricultural land has been lost in Scotland to house building developments in the last decade.

Question reference: S6W-10431

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 18 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 6 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any plans to use an advertising campaign to encourage individual sponsors to house Ukrainian refugees.