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: S5W-34129
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 12 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of Financial Transactions money will be in the 2021-22 Budget, and where it will be deployed.
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Question reference: S5W-34117
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 12 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what the role of the Water Industry Commission is in monitoring and regulating any anti-competitive arrangements within the competitive water market in Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-34087
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, whether it can confirm that the water charge cap envisaged will need to rise by more than 2% annually above the rate of inflation if any flexibility in charges to reflect the economic circumstances on customers of the COVID-19 pandemic are utilised in 2021-22 and any subsequent years.
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Question reference: S5W-34088
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, whether the general function it has of promoting the interests of persons who might become connected to Scottish Water’s services, is a function that has been given subsequent to the final determination of the 2015-21 period, or existed when that and earlier determinations were made.
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Question reference: S5W-34094
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission and its indication that it plans to continue with international work, what its position is on whether it is appropriate that the commission permits the use of air travel rewards from such business travel for personal gain, and how this permission compares with advice to civil servants.
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Question reference: S5W-34084
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, whether it will publish the assumptions and calculations that give rise to the minimum annual revenue expectation of £1,392 million in 2026-27, and, using the modelling assumptions for the strategic review of charges, what minimum charge would be necessary to generate this level of income.
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Question reference: S5W-34115
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether any loan offered to Business Stream by Scottish Water to assist it to trade as a result of lost business from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, constitutes a State Aid or could otherwise be regarded as an anti-competitive practice by a state-owned company, with a monopoly, operating in a competitive market.
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Question reference: S5W-34092
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, what assumptions have been made about cash balances held by Scottish Water at the end of 2020-21, and how those assumptions compare with the outcome set in the 2015-21 final determination.
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Question reference: S5W-34086
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, whether there is any flexibility in the expectation of the level of income to be raised in 2026-27, and whether any expectation is a formal part of the regulatory settlement for the period.
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Question reference: S5W-34085
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, what the actual split between domestic and business customers of Scottish Water’s income has been in each of the last 10 years.
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