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-29352
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will use mobile COVID-19 testing units in every local authority area to help increase the volume of testing.
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Question reference: S5W-29645
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 05 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 17 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to questions S5W-29285 and S5W-29287 by Ben Macpherson on 3 June 2020, in light of it not holding this information about the business support grants scheme centrally, how it can assess effectively the (a) level of support that has been delivered to each industry sector and subsequent properties and (b) effectiveness of the scheme and whether there are any gaps in support.
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Question reference: S5W-29528
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many older people’s care homes in the voluntary sector are owned by the same body, broken down by (a) body and (b) number of homes owned.
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Question reference: S5W-29526
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, as of 1 June 2020, how many older people’s care homes are in the (a) private, (b) public and (c) voluntary sector.
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Question reference: S5W-29527
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 17 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many older people’s care homes in the private sector are owned by the same company, broken down by (a) company and (b) number of homes owned.
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Question reference: S5W-29547
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 15 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of what the impact will be on portfolios that have seen a total of £255.2 million redeployed within the Scottish Budget Summer Revision in response to the COVID-19 outbreak.
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Question reference: S5W-29650
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the COVID-19 lockdown arrangements, whether Scottish Water (a) is required or (b) has offered to pay contractors that are unable to continue delivery of work on capital investment and maintenance programmes and, if so, what the estimated or actual value of these payments has been each month.
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Question reference: S5W-29544
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 11 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the New Lanark Trust with emergency funding to cope with its loss of income due to the COVID-19 outbreak and in order to avoid its potential closure.
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Question reference: S5W-29444
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 10 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what contingency planning it has carried out to respond to any second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Question reference: S5W-29431
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 May 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 10 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what additional financial support it has provided to Highlands and Islands Airports Limited to allow it to respond to the financial pressures arising from a loss of customer income as a result of COVID-19, and in what form any such support was provided.
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