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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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Question reference: S7W-04010

Asked by: David Green, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 October 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 2 November 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of establishing a Scottish equivalent to the UK Government's Museum Estate and Development (MEND) Fund.

Question reference: S7W-04009

Asked by: David Green, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 October 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 2 November 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will place the Museum Futures programme on a permanent, multi-year footing rather than continuing it as a time-limited programme.

Question reference: S7W-04012

Asked by: David Green, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 October 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 2 November 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of whether museum and gallery closures are likely to fall disproportionately on communities outside the central belt.

Question reference: S7W-04011

Asked by: David Green, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 October 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 2 November 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the reported loss of specialist collections, curatorial and learning roles across the museum sector, and what steps it is taking to retain these skills.

Question reference: S7W-04008

Asked by: David Green, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 October 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 2 November 2026

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason multi-year funding settlements have been extended to the organisations core funded through Creative Scotland but not to non-national museums and galleries, and whether it will address any such disparity.

Question reference: S7W-04013

Asked by: David Green, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Monday, 05 October 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 2 November 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how much of the £4 million of the £70 million in new culture funding it rolled out over the last two years has been allocated to projects outside of the central belt.

Question reference: S7W-03438

Asked by: David Green, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 18 September 2026
Current Status: Answered by Stephen Gethins on 2 October 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the role of the 2,125 people employed at Dounreay in maintaining and developing Scotland’s nuclear skills base.

Question reference: S7W-03436

Asked by: David Green, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 18 September 2026
Current Status: Answered by Stephen Gethins on 2 October 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the role of Scotland’s 5,583 civil nuclear workers in supporting the country’s energy transition.

The Scottish Government recognises the contribution that Scotland’s civil nuclear workforce makes to our energy system. We have not made a separate assessment of the cited figure.

Scotland’s energy transition will continue to require the skills that nuclear workers hold, whether in decommissioning or across the wider energy sector. Decommissioning at former sites is expected to continue for decades to come and will follow at Torness in due course.

Question reference: S7W-03437

Asked by: David Green, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Friday, 18 September 2026
Current Status: Answered by Stephen Gethins on 2 October 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with industry about the future of the 2,125 civil nuclear jobs currently supported at Dounreay.

Question reference: S7W-03816

Asked by: David Green, MSP for Caithness, Sutherland and Ross, Scottish Liberal Democrats
Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 September 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 28 October 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that financial barriers do not prevent people from lower-income backgrounds from pursuing careers in the cultural sector, including comedy.