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Questions and answers

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 October 2025
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Question reference: S6W-34305

  • Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 30 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 11 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether Business Improvement District levies in Scotland are capped.

Question reference: S6W-34603

  • Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 07 February 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 7 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what measures it has taken to assess the long-term impact of behavioural responses to its income tax policies.

Question reference: S6W-34608

  • Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 07 February 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 7 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to limit any fiscal burden on local authorities of non-teaching staff in educational services.

Question reference: S6W-34607

  • Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 07 February 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 7 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government to what extent local authorities are fiscally exposed to pay (a) agreements negotiated and (b) decisions made centrally by the Scottish Ministers.

Question reference: S6W-34605

  • Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 07 February 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 7 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what information it has collected regarding the impact of its local government funding policy decisions in the last decade on service outcomes.

Question reference: S6W-34606

  • Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 07 February 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 7 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the supplementary to question S6O-04294 by Ivan McKee on 5 February 2025, what information it collects on net movement between Scotland and the rest of the UK, and by what metrics it is equipped to break down the figures of overall movement to and from Scotland and the rest of the UK.

Question reference: S6W-34604

  • Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 07 February 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 7 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister’s stated priorities are currently considered as superseding the National Performance Framework where and whether they conflict.

Question reference: S6W-34780

  • Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 07 February 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 7 March 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Institute for Fiscal Studies report, Assessing Scottish tax strategy and policy, and its reported findings that the Scottish Government’s current use of Land and Buildings Transaction Tax and the Additional Dwelling Supplement (ADS) is "an exceptionally damaging way to raise revenue" and that "the increase in ADS makes a bad tax bigger and even more harmful".

Question reference: S6W-33289

  • Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 4 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government which public opinion and research organisations it has commissioned to carry out any work regarding Scottish independence or Scotland's constitutional future, since May 2021.

Question reference: S6O-04294

  • Asked by: Craig Hoy, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 January 2025
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what factors it considered when determining not to introduce any new bands or increase the rates of Scottish income tax for the remainder of this parliamentary session.