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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government how many Community Broadband Projects (a) there are and (b) it plans, and how it will ensure that these are fully-funded.
To ask the Scottish Government what its investment priorities are for the new round of procurement for superfast broadband rollout and, if these have not been agreed, by what date it will do so.
To ask the Scottish Government how many breaks in broadband service provision lasting (a) more than and (b) up to one hour there have been in each of the last 12 months in each Scottish Parliamentary (i) constituency and (ii) region, and what information it has regarding how many were due to (A) technical reasons and (B) over-subscription.
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it will provide toward achieving the aim in the 2016-17 Programme for Government to "equip all our citizens with the skills they need to gain the full benefits of technology" and what the timescale for this is.
To ask the Scottish Government how it will carry out its commitment in the 2016-17 Programme for Government that it will "equip all of its citizens with all of the skills necessary to gain the full benefits of broadband provisions".
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of the HIE provision of satellite broadband that is referred to at page 10 of the August 2016 Audit Scotland Report, Superfast broadband for Scotland: A progress update.
To ask the Scottish Government how BT calculated the estimated 30% take-up rate of broadband that is referred to at page 10 of the August 2016 Audit Scotland Report, Superfast broadband for Scotland: A progress update.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that the copper connections used by BT are adequate for the roll-out of superfast broadband.
To ask the Scottish Government what meetings it has had with the UK Government regarding the negotiations for a universal service obligation for broadband suppliers.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of how it calculated the savings set out at page 10 of the August 2016 Audit Scotland Report, Superfast broadband for Scotland: A progress update.