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-01391
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 27 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government who the members are of the Scottish Fuel Poverty Forum; when the forum last met, and whether it plans to continue with it.
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Question reference: S5W-01389
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 27 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many fuel poor households were identified in the most recent Scottish Household Survey.
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Question reference: S5W-01390
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 27 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the interim finding of the Scottish Fuel Poverty Strategic Working Group that the target to eradicate fuel poverty by 2016 will not be met, what plans it has work to work with stakeholders to reset the target.
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Question reference: S5W-01394
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 26 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many housing associations there are, and how many have live housebuilding development projects (a) in place and (b) planned for each of the next five years, broken down by the number of units.
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Question reference: S5W-01393
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 26 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many new affordable homes it plans to deliver in each of the next five years.
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Question reference: S5W-01395
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 26 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the capacity of (a) housing associations, (b) local authorities and (c) the building industry to assist in the delivery of the target to build 50,000 new affordable homes in each of the next five years.
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Question reference: S5W-00944
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 25 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the breastfeeding rate is for mothers leaving hospital after giving birth in a (a) community and (b) consultant-led maternity unit.
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Question reference: S5W-00945
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 22 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many births in consultant-led maternity units have been by (a) Caesarean section, (b) forceps delivery and (c) other emergency intervention in each hospital in each year since 2009, also expressed as a percentage of all births.
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Question reference: S5W-00943
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 22 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government where births for women resident in (a) Dumbarton, (b) the Vale of Leven, (c) Helensburgh and Lomond, (d) Clydebank, (e) Bearsden and (f) Milngavie were (i) booked and (ii) subsequently delivered in each since 2009.
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Question reference: S5W-01032
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 21 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is carrying out an internal civil service-led review of advice provision and, if so, what the scope and purpose is of the review; who is involved with it, and when the findings will be published.
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