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.
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To ask the Scottish Government how many Scottish Ambulance Service (a) emergency ambulances and (b) patient transport vehicles there are in operation, also broken down by the number based at or attached to each ambulance station.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) in remote or island communities have the skills and abilities to carry out the work required in respect of changes brought about by new energy efficiency legislation.
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it has or will put in place to sufficiently rural- and island-proof energy efficiency legislation where skills, labour and materials are likely to be more expensive and scarce.
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it will put in place to ensure that buildings are wind and watertight before it introduces measures to address energy efficiency, such as a Warm Homes Bill and the Scottish Energy Efficiency Programme.
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it has in place to ensure that the supply chain for appropriate insulation and other retrofit energy efficiency materials for traditional buildings is robust to support the likely demand once energy efficiency legislation is enacted.
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To ask the Scottish Government, in light of planned improvements to the A9, what it is doing to upgrade rail infrastructure and encourage more freight onto the Far North Line.
To ask the Scottish Government when the Freight Facilities Grant scheme will be reinstated.
To ask the Scottish Government when its report into community land purchases will be published.
To ask the Scottish Government how many community land purchases have been made in each local authority area; when each purchase took place and what the acreage was of each.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-09837 by Fergus Ewing on 29 June 2017, whether it will provide updated figures for the last two years; how much funding has been given to (a) grant applicants and (b) Community Broadband Scotland for providing grants, in each of the last five years, and whether, in each year, Community Broadband Scotland had an overspend or underspend in its grant budget.