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-08426
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 24 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, when it will provide a substantive answer to question S5W-07548, which received a holding response on 10 March 2017.
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Question reference: S5W-08435
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 7 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish carer’s benefit will retain the benefit cap exemption that has been in place since November 2016.
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Question reference: S5O-00829
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 March 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to concerns that reductions to local government budgets will have a negative impact on local services in South Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-06572
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 6 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what practical measures (a) will be and (b) have been undertaken by (i) it, (ii) Clyde 2020, (iii) the South West Inshore Fisheries Group and (iv) the Clyde Marine Planning Partnership to deliver on its commitment in April 2014 to regenerate fish stocks in the Clyde by 2020.
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Question reference: S5O-00754
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 March 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to address environmental concerns regarding aquaculture industry production targets.
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Question reference: S5O-00648
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 8 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what work it is doing to identify economic gender inequality.
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Question reference: S5W-06642
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 27 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 6 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what work has been done since the second Report on Proposals and Policies (RRP2) to review and develop policies on blue carbon and consider proposals to capture their potential.
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Question reference: S5W-06640
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 27 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 6 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the potential for blue carbon habitats to store and sequester carbon, for what reason the protection and restoration of these habitats is not included in the draft Climate Change Plan.
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Question reference: S5W-06641
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 27 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 6 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what work it has done since the second Report on Proposals and Policies (RPP2) to increase understanding of the distribution of blue carbon habitats, their condition and potential contribution to emission reductions.
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Question reference: S5W-06040
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 6 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government when it will issue the Environmental Co-operation Action Fund (ECAF) contracts that were due in July 2016.
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