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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

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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 7 October 2025
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Question reference: S6W-34130

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 26 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure transparency in the use of public funds for media training.

Question reference: S6W-34114

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 26 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how patients who are deemed “surgically fit for discharge” but refuse to leave hospital are (a) recorded and (b) monitored, and whether this is standardised across all NHS boards.

Question reference: S6W-34133

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 26 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many road traffic offences have been recorded on each trunk road in each year since 2018, broken down by type of offence.

Question reference: S6W-34158

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 26 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that nurses are protected from assault in the workplace.

Question reference: S6W-34152

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 26 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has conducted any recent audits or investigations into inappropriate use of its devices or computers, and what the outcomes were of any such work.

Question reference: S6W-34146

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 26 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of prosecutions for speeding offences on trunk roads have resulted in (a) fines, (b) driving bans and (c) other penalties being imposed in each year since 2018, broken down by trunk road.

Question reference: S6W-34124

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 26 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that the use of surgical wards for so-called medical boarders does not impact on patient outcomes for those requiring surgery.

Question reference: S6W-34119

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 26 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what legislative or policy changes it is considering to ensure that hospital capacity is not unduly impacted by any patients who are deemed “surgically fit for discharge” but refuse to leave, while ensuring patient rights are upheld.

Question reference: S6W-34089

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 26 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what it anticipates the benefits to Scotland will be of the Acting Cabinet Secretary for Net Zero and Energy’s engagements with German energy companies at the Handelsblatt Energy Summit in Berlin. 

Question reference: S6W-34021

  • Asked by: Douglas Lumsden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 January 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 26 February 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many times in each of the last five years it has met BBC Scotland executives; who attended; what was discussed; whether it will publish any formal minutes that were taken, and what plans it has to next meet.