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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 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 9 January 2026
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Question reference: S6W-08188

  • Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 22 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 12 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how NHS Scotland makes patient records available in the event that patients require NHS treatment elsewhere in the UK.

Question reference: S6W-08162

  • Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Friday, 22 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 12 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the NHS Workforce Strategy, what level of additional staffing it considers will be needed by Scotland’s genetic laboratories in future years to ensure that patients can benefit from advances in precision treatments, and what steps it is taking to recruit and retain laboratory staff with the necessary skills to undertake, report and advise multi-disciplinary oncology teams on genetic test findings.

Question reference: S6W-07949

  • Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 07 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 12 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what meetings its ministers or officials had with management representatives at Glasgow Prestwick Airport between December 2019 and March 2022 in relation to the nationalisation of Scotland’s railways, and whether any conclusions or lessons from these meetings will be published.

Question reference: S6W-08199

  • Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 12 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many babies with disabilities have been born in Scotland to mothers who used sodium valproate during pregnancy in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S6W-08210

  • Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 12 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what direct consultation was undertaken with the staff affected in relation to the decision to put in place a recruitment freeze in its health and social care directorate.

Question reference: S6W-08056

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 12 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been prosecuted for elder abuse in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S6W-08255

  • Asked by: Alex Cole-Hamilton, MSP for Edinburgh Western, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 12 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what processes are in place in the event that Ukrainian refugees and host families in Scotland, who have been matched through the Ukraine Sponsorship Scheme, have also applied through the Scottish Government's Super Sponsor Scheme.

Question reference: S6W-08256

  • Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 12 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of some NHS Scotland GP practices reportedly using GP DACS (General Practice Digital Asynchronous Consultation Systems), what consideration it has given to developing an in-house GP DACS.

Question reference: S6W-08243

  • Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 12 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what action will be taken to maintain a diversion route from the A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful once the upgrade of the A82 between Tarbert and Inverarnan commences.

Question reference: S6W-08183

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 April 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 12 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide free N95 face masks to severely immunosuppressed people to help to protect them from catching COVID-19.