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: S5W-35986
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 22 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what actions it is taking to halt the decline in biogenic reef habitats that was reported in the Scottish Marine Assessment 2020.
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Question reference: S5W-35982
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 22 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers the resumption of trawling in the Inner Sound of Skye on 1 April 2021 might impact on the national status of priority marine features in that area.
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Question reference: S5W-35985
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 18 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will record blue carbon emissions and removals in its next report on estimated greenhouse gas emissions.
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Question reference: S5W-35984
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 18 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the (a) Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and (b) Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs regarding including blue carbon emissions and removals in the National Greenhouse Gas inventory.
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Question reference: S5W-35983
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 18 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the protection and enhancement of blue carbon stores is necessary for the achievement of its climate change targets.
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Question reference: S5O-05123
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 March 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the recent report by the Disasters Emergency Committee, Breaking Point, and how this will impact on its international development strategy.
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Question reference: S5O-05085
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 February 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 4 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what measures in its 2021-22 Budget aim to tackle the gender pay gap.
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Question reference: S5W-34562
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 January 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 1 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is on track to deliver a publicly-owned energy company by the end of the current parliamentary session and, if not, by what date this will be delivered.
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Question reference: S5O-04966
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 January 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to Teach the Future's call for a review into how the whole of the formal education system is preparing students for a climate emergency and ecological crisis.
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Question reference: S5O-04853
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 16 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what the level is of children's and young people’s participation in the civil courts, and how it monitors the quality of the support that they are given.