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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 February 2026
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Question reference: S6W-28385

  • Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Thursday, 04 July 2024
  • Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answer expected on 1 August 2024

To ask the Scottish Government test latency 12.

Question reference: S6W-28386

  • Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Thursday, 04 July 2024
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 1 August 2024

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body test latency 12

Question reference: S6W-28384

  • Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Thursday, 04 July 2024
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 1 August 2024

To ask the Scottish Government test latency lodged at 12.01

Question reference: S6T-02025

  • Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Thursday, 04 July 2024
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 July 2024

To ask the Scottish Government test latency 12.

Question reference: S6F-03211

  • Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Thursday, 04 July 2024
  • Current Status: Due to be taken in the Chamber on 3 April 2028

To ask the First Minister

Question reference: S6F-03210

  • Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party

  • Submitting member has a registered interest.

  • Date lodged: Thursday, 04 July 2024
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 July 2024

To ask the First Minister test latency lodged at 12.01

Question reference: S6O-03734

  • Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S6W-28378

  • Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 July 2024
  • Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answer expected on 31 July 2024

To ask the Scottish Government test

Question reference: S6O-03710

To ask the Scottish Government test

Question reference: S6W-27420

  • Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 June 2024
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 18 June 2024

To ask the Scottish Government on what date its Statistics Public Benefit and Privacy Panel (SPBPP) reportedly granted a request by the University of Strathclyde to access data gathered from 134,0000 children in the Health and Wellbeing Census, and whether it will provide any documentation that shows for what reason any such request was granted, in light of the Information Commissioner's Office advice to the Scottish Government in August 2023 that the arrangements for processing the data did not meet requirements of Article 4(5) of the UK GDPR around pseudonymisation, and Article 25 around Data Protection by Design and Default, which created "serious risks" and put children at risk of "potential harms".