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
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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Question reference: S6W-20899
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 27 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what it has done to support schools in teaching about the climate emergency.
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Question reference: S6W-20900
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 27 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many pupils at Scottish schools currently speak English as a second language.
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Question reference: S6W-20898
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 26 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many pupils have had musical instrument lessons at school in each year since 2016.
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Question reference: S6W-20897
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 26 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many classrooms in Scotland are inaccessible to wheelchair users.
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Question reference: S6W-20893
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 26 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many places on secondary school teacher training courses there were in 2022, and how many of these were filled, broken down by subject.
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Question reference: S6W-21355
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 26 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether local authorities would retain all of the additional council tax revenue raised from properties within their local area under its proposals to change the council tax multipliers for properties in bands E to H.
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Question reference: S6W-20901
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 29 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 19 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will make pupils who speak English as a second language eligible within the criteria for Pupil Equity Funding.
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Question reference: S6W-20892
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Natalie Don on 19 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of pupils have had at least one week away at an outdoor centre in the last 12 months.
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Question reference: S6W-20961
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Elena Whitham on 14 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the report, Synthetic Opioids: A Whole System Response to a Public Health Emergency, by the charity, Cranstoun, and what action it plans to take in response to the reported emergence of synthetic opioids in the supply of drugs in the UK.
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Question reference: S6O-02545
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 September 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the increase in patient charges for NHS dental treatment will be.