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 what the outcome was of the Scottish onshore wind sector emergency summit in Glasgow on 9 July 2015 to discuss the impact of the UK Government’s decision to end the Renewable Obligation scheme early, in April 2016, and what action the Scottish Government (a) has taken and (b) plans to take following the ending of the scheme.
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has budgeted for support for the onshore wind energy sector in (a) 2015-16 and (b) 2016-17.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the First Minister's statement at Glenboig Community Centre on 14 September 2015, what the annual cost is of the Warmer Homes Scotland scheme; how it calculated the "over half a billion pounds" that it has allocated since 2009 "to make Scotland's homes more energy efficient"; whether it will provide a breakdown of this figure by programme for each year since 2009; whether it will provide a breakdown by (a) local authority and (b) year of the "700,000 households" whose fuel bills have been reduced as a result, and what the average cash saving has been by household.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has acted on the recommendation of the Task Force for the Future of Residential Care in Scotland to carry out financial modelling of the costs of paying the living wage throughout the care sector.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has carried out an assessment of the impact of the Public Health etc. (Scotland) Act 2008 (Sunbed) Regulations 2009 on the use of sunbeds.
To ask the Scottish Government whether the incidence of skin cancer in Scotland is continuing to rise.
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how much it would cost to pay the living wage throughout the care sector in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of the cost of using its existing powers through the maintenance of a Scottish Renewables Obligation (RO) in the event that UK Government ends the RO early.
To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of the potential lost (a) jobs and (b) investment in onshore wind energy in Scotland arising from the proposed early ending of the Renewables Obligation scheme and what it can do to protect projects adversely affected.
To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take to protect investment in Scottish onshore wind projects already in the planning pipeline in the event that the Renewables Obligation scheme is ended a year early.