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-32645
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 19 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 12 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when it expects to commence its consultation on the provision of short-term mobility aids with health and social care partnerships; when it expects this consultation to conclude; when it aims to issue final guidance on provision to partnerships, and from what date it expects this guidance to come into effect.
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Question reference: S5W-32530
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 11 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what the purpose was of the meeting between the First Minister and the former Chief of Staff to Alex Salmond, Geoff Aberdein, on 29 March 2018, and who arranged it.
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Question reference: S5W-32529
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 11 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government where the meeting between the First Minister and the former Chief of Staff to Alex Salmond, Geoff Aberdein, on 29 March 2018 took place.
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Question reference: S5W-32531
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 11 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government were there any meetings between the former Chief of Staff to Alex Salmond, Geoff Aberdein, and the (a) First Minister or (b) current Chief of Staff to the First Minister prior to the meeting on 29 March 2018 and, if so, what was discussed.
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Question reference: S5W-32528
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 11 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when the meeting between the First Minister and the former Chief of Staff to Alex Salmond, Geoff Aberdein, scheduled for 29 March 2018 was removed from the ministerial diary; by whom, and on whose instruction.
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Question reference: S5W-32527
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 11 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when the meeting between the First Minister and the former Chief of Staff to Alex Salmond, Geoff Aberdein, scheduled for 29 March 2018 was first placed in the ministerial diary; by whom, and on whose instruction.
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Question reference: S5W-32644
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 19 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 10 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the draft determination for the strategic review of water charges for 2021-27 by the Water Industry Commission for Scotland, what specific power or duty the Commission has beyond its statutory requirement to determine any maximum water charges to set a minimum income requirement or expectation for Scottish Water for any point within a charge determination period; where any such specific duty or power is set out, and what legal force would attach to any policy of the Commission of a specific minimum income expectation on Scottish Water.
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Question reference: S5W-32683
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 10 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it will publish Scottish Water’s 2019-20 annual accounts, and for what reason ministers have reportedly delayed publication.
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Question reference: S5W-32799
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 10 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the evidence it received on which it based its decision to the close group classes in gyms and other exercise facilities.
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Question reference: S5W-32768
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 October 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 9 November 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-32297 by Jeane Freeman on 23 October 2020, whether there are specific plans to open dedicated clinics that treat the long-term symptoms of COVID-19; if so, what timeframe it has for the opening of such clinics, and where these will be situated.