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-33639
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 15 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to review forestry funding mechanisms to facilitate the planting of native trees on riverbanks to create shade to mitigate climate-induced warming.
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Question reference: S5W-33609
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 10 December 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what provision can be made for disabled access at Carstairs Railway Station, and whether renewal work currently underway as part of Network Rail's CP6 plan provides an opportunity to do so.
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Question reference: S5W-33310
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 24 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, when considering the granting of a child contact or residence order, to what extent a court takes into consideration an applicant’s previous civil or criminal convictions for, or history of, domestic abuse against the child’s other parent, and, before granting such an order, what safeguards it would require to be put in place.
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Question reference: S5W-32935
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 02 November 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 13 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what longer-term provisions are being put in place to respond to the reported increase in demand for mental health services in rural areas.
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Question reference: S5W-32306
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 10 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the Leaders’ Pledge for Nature, which was launched at a virtual UN event on 28 September 2020 and signed by the Prime Minister on behalf of the UK Government; what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding this pledge and the commitments it contains, and how it will ensure that Scotland delivers its proportion of the commitments.
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Question reference: S5O-04733
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 November 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it plans to take to meet any budget shortfall that local authorities are facing going into winter.
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Question reference: S5W-31592
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 September 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how it will respond to the Citizen Assembly's report that is required under the Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019, and whether it will do so in time for the Parliament to scrutinise this response before the end of the current session.
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Question reference: S5O-04620
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 September 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it is taking to restore chronic pain treatment services, in light of official statistics for the quarter ending 30 June 2020, which recorded that over half of new patients waited over 18 weeks for a first appointment.
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Question reference: S5W-31470
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is considering introducing an outright ban on the sale and use of rodent glue traps, or only prohibiting the use and purchase by members of the public and, if the later, who will be allowed to continue to set glue traps, and how these users will be (a) defined and (b) regulated.
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Question reference: S5W-31484
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 31 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what long-term consideration it has given to the impact on Scotland of a potential +3C degree rise in global temperatures, in light of the suggestion by the UK Committee on Climate Change that there is only a 50/50 chance of staying under +3C by 2100.