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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 成人快手 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 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 1 August 2025
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Question reference: S6W-39655

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 27 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether Transport Scotland will adopt the Clyde Tunnel as a national trunk road asset, such as the Kingston and Erskine bridges, due to the reported strategic regional nature of the tunnel to the West of Scotland trunk road network and the reported disproportionately higher cost to operate and maintain it borne by Glasgow City Council relative to the budget typically required for a standard non-trunk road.

Question reference: S6W-39238

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 27 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on what the current 10 largest private firms in Glasgow are, broken down by (a) employee headcount and (b) turnover.

Question reference: S6W-39656

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 27 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will facilitate and promote the adoption of the Clyde Tunnel as a regional transport asset by the Glasgow City Region local authorities, and co-funded via Strathclyde Partnership for Transport, or a new special purpose body, to restore the combined regional authority approach to trunk road infrastructure in the area that existed via Strathclyde Roads from 1975 to 1996.

Question reference: S6W-39653

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 27 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will request that the Scottish Prison Service commission the Glasgow Building Preservation Trust, or a similar organisation, to carry out an options appraisal and feasibility study for the adaptive reuse of the historic buildings at HMP Barlinnie when the site is no longer that of an operational prison after HMP Glasgow is operational.

Question reference: S6W-39657

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 27 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government what discussion (a) it and (b)Transport Scotland has had with Glasgow City Council regarding the potential installation of a numberplate recognition camera toll system to charge for daily use of the Clyde Tunnel for vehicles registered outside of the local authority's boundary.

Question reference: S6W-39654

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answer expected on 27 August 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide enhanced funding to Glasgow City Council, in addition to the baseline local authority budget allocation for local road maintenance, to offset the annual cost deficit for managing the Clyde Tunnel, in light of it consuming approximately 10% the local authority's roads budget.

Question reference: S6W-39280

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 10 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 30 July 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many buses were ordered under each round of the Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme (SULEBS), broken down by (a) manufacturer and (b) place of manufacture.

Question reference: S6W-39284

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 10 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 30 July 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many buses were ordered under each round of the Scottish Green Bus Fund, broken down by (a) manufacturer and (b) place of manufacture.

Question reference: S6W-39285

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 10 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 30 July 2025

To ask the Scottish Government how many of the buses funded through the Scottish Zero Emission Bus Challenge Fund and Scottish Ultra-Low Emission Bus Scheme were the model, Alexander Dennis (a) Enviro400EV, (b) Enviro200EV, (c) Enviro100EV, (d) Enviro400 MMC and (e) Enviro200 MMC.

Question reference: S6W-39295

  • Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 10 July 2025
  • Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 29 July 2025

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will commit to retaining the assets of Prestwick Aviation Holdings Ltd under its ownership to ensure long-term public control over the aerospace industrial development zone.