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
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Question reference: S6W-19333
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 11 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when the next Hydro Nation annual report will be available, in light of it being almost 16 months since the last publication.
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Question reference: S6W-19332
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 11 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made on large-scale water infrastructure development projects, such as reservoir expansions, to increase Scotland’s water resilience in the future.
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Question reference: S6W-19334
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 11 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many of the 50,000 properties that were using private water supplies in June 2022 have been brought onto mains water supplies by the pilot scheme in Aberdeenshire to date.
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Question reference: S6W-19445
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 3 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comment by the Minister for Energy and the Environment, during the members’ business debate on motion S6M-09174 on 22 June 2023, that "the contributions have also highlighted some of the challenges to the threshold that has been suggested, which might have unintended consequences", what it believes these unintended consequences to be, and on what evidence it is basing this view.
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Question reference: S6W-19250
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 16 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 29 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it or its agencies have conducted an independent audit of the claimed central estimate of a £20 billion finance gap for nature contained in the Finance Gap for UK Nature Report, published by the Green Finance Institute in October 2021, in light of it subsequently being quoted in Scottish Government communications.
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Question reference: S6W-19257
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 16 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 28 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether all developers of wind farms leased through the ScotWind process will recognise the digital offshore training passport when it comes online.
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Question reference: S6W-18979
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 22 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government by what date in 2023 the review of homecare medicines services will be carried out by the Chief Pharmaceutical Officer, and whether the review will be carried out in consultation with both healthcare professionals and patients.
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Question reference: S6W-18826
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 22 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what public consultation was undertaken on the NatureScot private finance investment pilot, and which stakeholders were engaged with.
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Question reference: S6W-18825
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 22 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether the ethical framework for the NatureScot private finance investment pilot will be enforceable, and, if so, who by, and under what powers.
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Question reference: S6W-18864
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 20 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of Scotland's renewable energy generation takes place on sites of over 500 hectares in size.