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: S4W-25734
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 3 June 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-25243 by John Swinney on 16 April 2015, on what date it plans to publish the responses to The Scottish Independence Bill: A Consultation on an Interim Constitution for Scotland.
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Question reference: S4W-25721
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 3 June 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how it discharges its responsibility for overseeing the effective functioning of land-use planning with reference to local review bodies.
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Question reference: S4W-25728
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 3 June 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how much it forecasts will be raised by the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax in 2015-16, broken down by month.
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Question reference: S4W-25729
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 3 June 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how much was or has been raised in Land and Buildings Transaction Tax in (a) April and (b) May 2015 and how many transactions this relates to for each month.
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Question reference: S4O-04413
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 May 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 3 June 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will encourage Police Scotland to publish responses to the consultation on the merger of K and L Divisions.
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Question reference: S4W-25736
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 2 June 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-25018 by Fergus Ewing on 2 April 2015, when it will complete its analysis and publish a revised oil and gas bulletin.
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Question reference: S4F-02821
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 May 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 May 2015
To ask the First Minister how much revenue has been raised by the Land and Buildings Transaction Tax and the Landfill Tax since April 2015.
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Question reference: S4O-04340
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 May 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 May 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact on disabled people in Scotland of the Department for Work and Pensions' proposal to cap the Access to Work scheme.
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Question reference: S4W-25272
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 April 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 12 May 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish an assessment of the cost of its proposals for (a) freezing the retirement age, (b) scrapping the so-called bedroom tax, (c) fully retaining child benefit and (d) increasing universal credit.
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Question reference: S4W-25271
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 April 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 12 May 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has taken account of spending on extra welfare and pensions costs in its proposals to boost UK spending by £165 billion and, if not, how these would be paid for.
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