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-03371
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 27 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-01907 by Michael Matheson on 16 August 2021, for what reason it has decided to phase out the installation of new or replacement fossil fuel heating systems in off-gas-grid homes five years earlier than homes connected to the gas grid.
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Question reference: S6W-03435
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Friday, 01 October 2021
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 27 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when the Tenant Hardship Loan Fund is due to close to new applicants.
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Question reference: S6W-03607
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 27 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many existing hospital beds will be released as a result of improvements that are planned to reduce delayed discharge.
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Question reference: S6W-03370
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 27 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-01907 by Michael Matheson on 16 August 2021, by what date it plans to phase out the installation of new or replacement fossil fuel heating systems in (a) off-gas-grid homes and (b) homes connected to the gas grid.
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Question reference: S6W-03499
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 27 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its announcement of £25 million of funding for businesses to improve ventilation, whether funding will also be made available for community halls for public use.
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Question reference: S6W-03372
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 27 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-01907 by Michael Matheson on 16 August 2021, whether there was a public consultation on its decision to phase out the installation of new or replacement fossil fuel heating systems in off-gas-grid homes five years earlier than homes connected to the gas grid.
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Question reference: S6W-03373
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 27 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-01907 by Michael Matheson on 16 August 2021, what assessment it has made of the delivery of its fuel poverty target in relation to its decision to phase out the installation of new or replacement fossil fuel heating systems in off-gas-grid homes five years earlier than homes connected to the gas grid.
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Question reference: S6W-04016
- Asked by: Jackie Dunbar, MSP for Aberdeen Donside, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 October 2021
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Patrick Harvie on 27 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its target to meet 11% of non-electrical heat demand from renewable sources by 2020.
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Question reference: S6W-03401
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 26 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the World Health Organization (WHO) publication, Global Air Quality Guidelines, on 22 September 2021, and what plans it has to set new targets to meet the new air pollution levels set out by WHO.
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Question reference: S6W-03589
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 26 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its environmental targets, the reported urgency of the climate and nature emergencies, and the role that Scotland’s peatlands play as a carbon store and habitat, whether it will have a licensing scheme in place for muirburn, including a ban on almost all burning on peat, in time for the next muirburn season starting on 1 October 2022.
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