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: S6W-18538
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 15 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-17872 by Lorna Slater on 25 May 2023, how much time, specifically, will be available for end-to-end testing.
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Question reference: S6W-18724
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 15 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-17484 by Lorna Slater on 11 May 2023, what plans it has to publish the notes and actions of the meeting held on 20 April 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-18725
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 June 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 15 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-17484 by Lorna Slater on 11 May 2023, for what reason it made no such publications during May 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-18425
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 14 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when the Deposit Return Scheme Implementation Advisory Group last met.
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Question reference: S6W-18430
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 14 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has reconsidered or revised any impact assessments as a result of the delay in implementing the Deposit Return Scheme, and, if so, which ones.
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Question reference: S6W-18429
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 14 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when the Cabinet last discussed the Deposit Return Scheme.
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Question reference: S6W-18432
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 14 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6T-01392 by Lorna Slater on 23 May 2023, whether it will list the membership of the high-level ministerial strategic group for the delivery of the scheme.
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Question reference: S6W-18428
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 14 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when the First Minister and the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity last met to discuss the Deposit Return Scheme.
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Question reference: S6W-18426
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 14 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is still its position, as set out by the former Deputy First Minister in his letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer and the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on 31 January 2023, that it "agrees with the goal of promoting long term alignment of [deposit return] schemes" across the UK.
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Question reference: S6W-18431
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 14 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many stakeholders it has met with, to date, to discuss barcodes for products within scope of the Deposit Return Scheme.
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