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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: S6W-44349

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2026
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 24 March 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that local authorities comply with data protection requirements when using educational technology platforms that process children’s personal data.

Local authorities are independent data controllers for their use of educational technology and are responsible for ensuring compliance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018, including completing Data Protection Impact Assessments where required.

It is therefore for local authorities to satisfy themselves that any educational technology complies with data protection legislation, alongside local security and safeguarding requirements. As data protection legislation is reserved, enforcement sits with the UK data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

Question reference: S6W-44337

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2026
Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 17 March 2026

To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to undertake an assessment of the impact of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 on rural and island communities, as required by section 81 of that Act.

Section 81 of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2025 requires the Scottish Ministers to conduct a rural and island communities impact assessment of the provisions of the Act no later than 6 November 2026.

A report of the findings will be laid before the Scottish Parliament and published with a statement of the action, if any, the Scottish Ministers intend to take as a result of the impact assessment by that date.

Question reference: S6W-44357

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what clinical governance arrangements are in place across NHS Scotland to oversee decision-making regarding extended, blanket and targeted antifungal prophylactic medications, including posaconazole, to prevent infection from water or airborne bacteria during cancer therapy.

Question reference: S6W-44358

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to ensure that lessons have been learned from concerns raised by families regarding prescribing practices for immunosuppressant patients in paediatric services at the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital.

Question reference: S6W-44338

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 12 March 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026

To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to publish its Rural Support Plan as required by the Agricultural and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024.

Question reference: S6W-44245

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026

To ask the Scottish Government how its revised Code of Practice for constables when exercising the power of stop and search, which is currently being consulted on, will ensure the safety of biological women, in light of proposals that could allow a biological male to request that a biological female constable searches them.

Question reference: S6W-44241

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what its policy is regarding the cross-border referral of patients to facilities in England for routine healthcare treatment when waiting lists in NHS boards in Scotland exceed referral-to-treatment standards.

Question reference: S6W-44243

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide information on any further action that the working group it established following the UK Supreme Court’s judgment in the For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers case has assessed as necessary to ensure that all public bodies are providing single-sex spaces.

Question reference: S6W-44242

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the actions taken by the working group it established following the UK Supreme Court’s judgment in the For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers case, to ensure that all public bodies are providing single-sex spaces.

Question reference: S6W-44244

Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 March 2026
Current Status: Answer expected on 25 March 2026

To ask the Scottish Government what the total cost to date is of the working group it established following the UK Supreme Court’s judgment in the For Women Scotland v The Scottish Ministers case.