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: S5T-02387
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2020
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what mitigation measures are being considered to deal with the continuing closure of the A83 at the Rest and Be Thankful.
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Question reference: S5W-31463
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 8 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether there is any funding remaining from the (a) Small Business Grant and (b) Retail, Hospitality and Leisure Grant scheme since its closure to new applications on 10 July 2020 and, if so, where it plans to spend any remaining funding.
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Question reference: S5W-31466
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S5W-30854, S5W-30856 and S5W-30857 by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 August 2020, what the daily rate is at which the Chief Executive of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland's time is being charged out on contracts undertaken.
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Question reference: S5W-31468
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the annual average investment spending of Scottish Water that has been planned will have been met through (a) government borrowing during the 2015-16 to 2020-21 period and (b) the modelled logarithm that underlies the approach to future water charges created by the Water Industry Commission.
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Question reference: S5W-31467
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-30850 by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 August 2020, how much the Water Industry Commission has paid toward forest planting in offsetting carbon emissions in each of the last five years, and to whom these payments have been made.
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Question reference: S5W-31472
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of annual average investment spending of Scottish Water in the 2035-36 and 2039-40 periods it expects will be met through government borrowing.
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Question reference: S5W-31469
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 7 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-30852 by Kate Forbes on 10 August 2020, whether it expects each of its agencies to have policies on the personal use of frequent flyer schemes and, if so, whether these schemes should be consistent with its policy that they should not be used for personal gain by employees.
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Question reference: S5W-31239
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 4 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether any of its special advisers have had a pay increase in the last three years outwith the normal annual pay increase applied to the Civil Service and, if so, (a) who and (b) by how much their pay increased.
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Question reference: S5W-31293
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 4 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Sport on 19 August 2020 (Official Report, c. 10), how many (a) face-to-face and (b) virtual GP appointments have been conducted in each month since March 2020, broken down by NHS board; what action is being taken to restore the full face-to-face service, and by what date this will be in place.
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Question reference: S5W-31447
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 27 August 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 3 September 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when it will provide permanent local COVID-19 testing facilities in the Dumbarton constituency.
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