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
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Question reference: S4W-28714
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 9 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the (a) schedule, (b) agendas, (c) list of spokespeople in attendance and (d) recorded attendance of stakeholder workshop meetings to facilitate consultation on the public health impact assessment in respect of the moratorium on unconventional gas extraction and fracking.
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Question reference: S4W-28715
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Maureen Watt on 9 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) funding and (b) staffing has been allocated to conducting the public health impact assessment in respect of the moratorium on unconventional gas extraction and fracking.
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Question reference: S4W-28448
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 7 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comment by the Minister for Energy, Enterprise and Tourism on 11 November 2015 (Official Report, c. 92), that "there is an ambition for a further 14,000 homes" to be connected to district heat networks by 2020, whether it will confirm where the developments will be located and how it will support them.
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Question reference: S4W-28466
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is monitoring the reported increase of rents in the farming sector.
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Question reference: S4W-28490
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out of how abolishing air passenger duty might impact on its ability to meet its climate change targets.
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Question reference: S4W-28425
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 26 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it sought legal advice to confirm the integrity of its directions to local authorities and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency in relation to fracking and underground coal gasification in January and October 2015.
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Question reference: S4O-04889
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 November 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the president of NUS Scotland's evidence to the Education and Culture Committee that further education student support in Scotland is “not fit for purpose”.
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Question reference: S4W-28467
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 25 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of respondees to its consultations in each of the last five years has asked for the response not to be published, broken down by directorate.
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Question reference: S4W-28322
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 06 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 19 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the UK Government's consultation on whether fracking should take place in such areas, whether it will use the moratorium on unconventional gas extraction to consider whether it should be permitted (a) at surface level in and (b) below (i) national parks, (ii) natura sites and (iii) sites of special scientific interest.
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Question reference: S4W-28283
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 19 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how exploration, which is prohibited under the terms of the moratorium on fracking, differs from drilling a borehole solely for the purpose of core sampling, and how it determines when such activity can proceed in its directions to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency and local authorities.