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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 10 October 2025
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Question reference: S6W-36813

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 1 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reports that a number of its senior civil servants pay income tax rates applicable to the rest of the UK rather than Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-36600

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 04 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 1 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what the total cost will be of meeting its net zero target for social housing, and how it will finance this.

Question reference: S6W-37122

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 1 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what its strategy is for ensuring that Scotland’s coasts remain safe and sustainable, in light of reported evidence showing significant gaps in vessel tracking and monitoring.

Question reference: S6W-37091

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 1 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers the use of Preference Informed Allocation to be an appropriate and effective method of allocating applicants to the Scotland Foundation School as part of the UK Foundation Programme, and what assessment it has made of any potential impact on applicants.

Question reference: S6W-37088

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 1 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has carried out any modelling on the potential long-term demographic impact of poor access to healthcare services in rural areas, and whether it will publish any such analysis. 

Question reference: S6W-36996

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 1 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish a breakdown of running costs for each of its buildings in which average desk occupancy fell below 50% in the last year.

Question reference: S6W-37204

  • Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 25 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 1 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many attacks by dogs have been reported to Police Scotland in each year since 1999, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S6W-36994

  • Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 1 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what the average daily desk occupancy rate has been across its estate in the last year.

Question reference: S6W-37202

  • Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 25 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Siobhian Brown on 1 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication of the Independent Working Group on Antisocial Behaviour's review report, what consideration it has given to its recommendations regarding preventing homelessness.

Question reference: S6W-37059

  • Asked by: Ariane Burgess, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 April 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 1 May 2025

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recently published Evaluation of Regional Inshore Fisheries Groups (RIFG), which highlighted that a majority of marine stakeholders believe that the 15-year-old RIFG model is not delivering on its remit, whether it is considering other co-management models, including English IFCAs, and what the reasoning is for its decision.