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-29543
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-28665 by Jeane Freeman on 18 May 2020, how many people were discharged from hospital to a care home in (a) March, (b) April and (c) May 2020, also broken down by how many were tested for COVID-19.
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Question reference: S5W-29782
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many care home residents have received COVID-19 tests since it announced the expansion of testing, whether they are symptomatic or not.
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Question reference: S5W-29771
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will introduce local COVID-19 lockdowns in areas where it believes that the R rate might go above 1.
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Question reference: S5W-29241
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many tests for COVID-19 have been carried out on people with (a) learning disabilities and (b) other support needs who are resident in care homes.
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Question reference: S5W-28443
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 April 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 2 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-27952 by Jeane Freeman on 15 April 2020, how many samples have been taken each week; what this confirms about prevalence, and when it will publish prevalence data.
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Question reference: S5W-30021
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 2 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication of the 2019 decision paper, Asset Replacement, by the Water Industry Commission for Scotland, how the figure of an additional £50 million per annum for service improvements and growth was calculated and whether it will publish the methodology used.
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Question reference: S5W-30026
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 2 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication of the 2020 decision paper, Prospects for Prices, by the Water Industry Commission for Scotland, whether current water charges are lower than they should be to meet the economic costs of providing the service and, if so, (a) whether ministerial objectives were expressed in such a way as to require that outcome and (b) for what reason the Commission has set charges at this level.
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Question reference: S5W-30024
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 2 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication of the 2020 decision paper, Prospects for Prices, by the Water Industry Commission for Scotland, whether it is aware of the documentary source of the references made to the work of JASPERS and UKWIR, and whether it will publish any such documentary sources.
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Question reference: S5W-30017
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 2 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how much capital expenditure Scottish Water plans for 2020-21.
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Question reference: S5W-30039
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 2 July 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication of the 2020 decision paper, Prospects for Prices, by the Water Industry Commission for Scotland, what the assumptions are for government borrowing in the statistical modelling to 2040-41.
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