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: S5O-04543
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 August 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what the revised delivery date for Carer's Allowance is and when the transfer of cases will take place.
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Question reference: S5W-30719
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to establish sector-specific groups to address climate change challenges within agriculture, further to the establishment of the Suckler Beef Climate Group.
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Question reference: S5W-30716
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to support farmers and crofters to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
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Question reference: S5W-30718
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what specific measures it expects to fund through the Agricultural Transformation Programme.
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Question reference: S5W-30717
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to set out the progress it has made in developing an Agricultural Transformation Programme.
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Question reference: S5W-30780
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 27 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea advice that the Total Allowable Catch for North Sea cod should be set at no more than 14,755 tonnes.
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Question reference: S5W-30779
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 27 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea advice that the Total Allowable Catch for Rockall cod should be set at no more than 14 tonnes.
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Question reference: S5W-30315
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 17 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management report, Guidance on Ecological Survey and Assessment in the UK During the Covid-19 Outbreak, will apply to Phase 2 of its route map to allow non-essential outdoor workplaces with physical distancing to resume once relevant guidance is agreed, or whether Scotland-specific information will now be provided for environmental monitoring.
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Question reference: S5W-30189
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 17 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of publication of the 2019 decision paper, Asset Replacement, by the Water Industry Commission for Scotland, what estimate SEPA made of the (a) carbon and other emissions that would be caused by the establishment of the £6 billion of additional assets envisaged in the strategy and (b) additional emissions arising from the maintenance of total assets then under management.
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Question reference: S5W-30194
- Asked by: Claudia Beamish, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 July 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 17 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication of the 2019 decision paper, Prospects for Prices, by the Water Industry Commission for Scotland, what evidence the Commission used in the analysis that suggests meeting net-zero emissions will cost more in asset replacement.