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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: S6W-07097
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 23 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the proposed Deposit Return Scheme may contravene the provisions on non-discrimination of goods, which are included in the UK Internal Market Act 2020.
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Question reference: S6W-07098
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 23 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to its plans to include glass packaging in a Deposit Return Scheme, whether it has considered the impact on overall glass recycling rates of splitting glass into two waste streams for material collected manually and using reverse vending machines.
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Question reference: S6W-07113
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 23 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comments, regarding potential benefits for industry from its Deposit Return Scheme, by the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity at the meeting of the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee on 25 January 2022, that the scheme "will generate about £600 million a year" and that "there is a lot of money to be made", whether it will provide a detailed breakdown of this figure in terms of any potential benefits to industry, and how precisely any such benefits will arise.
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Question reference: S6W-07092
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 23 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many businesses in the SME sector it anticipates will cease doing business in Scotland as a result of any additional costs of compliance with the proposed Deposit Return Scheme, such as the bar code and labelling requirements.
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Question reference: S6W-07124
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 22 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the estimated cost of fraud of the Deposit Return Scheme reduced from £108 million in the business and regulatory impact assessment (BRIA) of 2019 to £74.3 million in the Final BRIA of 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-07111
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 22 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comment by the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity at the meeting of the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee on 25 January 2022 that it will "begin to build counting and sorting centres in August 2022", how many of each of these two types of centres will be built; where each will be built; at what costs, and how many employees will be employed at each of them.
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Question reference: S6W-07125
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 22 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what the basis is for the assumption that 3,021 reverse vending machines (RVM) will be required for the Deposit Return Scheme, as shown in Table 2 of the business and regulatory impact assessment (BRIA) of 2019 and the Final BRIA of 2021, and how many RVMs Circularity Scotland estimates will be required.
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Question reference: S6W-07122
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 22 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it did not include in either the business and regulatory impact assessment (BRIA) of 2019 or the Final BRIA of 2021 of the Deposit Return Scheme an estimate of the total annual cost of loss of revenue for retailers that is attributable to the loss of floor space required for RVMs, and whether it will publish these calculations showing the full detail.
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Question reference: S6W-07109
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 22 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what the current remuneration is, including any pension or other entitlements, for (a) the (i) chair, (ii) chief executive officer and (iii) chief financial officer and (b) each of the independent directors of Circularity Scotland; whether this will remain the same in each of the next two years; who determines their remuneration, and whether it is subject to ministerial approval.
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Question reference: S6W-07123
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 22 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to the business and regulatory impact assessment (BRIA) of 2019 and the Final BRIA of 2021 of the Deposit Return Scheme and section 4.1 on calculating the costs and benefits of recycling, whether it will provide the detailed calculations for the “associated costs and benefits”, setting out (a) the individual figures and computations of the costs per tonne calculated for “collecting, sorting and disposing of the recycled materials” and (b) the benefits per tonne of “material revenue, carbon savings, residual collection, landfill savings and litter reduction benefits”, and for what reason the loss of landfill tax resulting from less material going to landfill has been excluded from the calculation.
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