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: S5W-12923
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 6 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many landlords have (a) had action taken against them and (b) been (i) prosecuted and (ii) convicted each year under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 for failing to carry out regular electrical safety inspections, broken down by local authority area.
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Question reference: S5W-12921
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 6 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many landlords have (a) had action taken against them and (b) been (i) prosecuted and (ii) convicted each year under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2014 for failing to maintain the repairing standard, broken down by local authority area.
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Question reference: S5O-01556
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 December 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that planning law provides adequate protection for live music venues.
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Question reference: S5O-01523
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 November 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how it will provide sustainable funding in the future for the Scottish Sports Association.
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Question reference: S5W-12387
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 November 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 16 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many times the 12-week guaranteed treatment time has been breached by each NHS board in each of the last three years, broken down by what percentage of procedures this represented (a) in the NHS board area and (b) nationally.
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Question reference: S5W-11769
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on progress toward the achievement of major trauma centre status at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, as part of the Scottish Trauma Network.
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Question reference: S5W-11740
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 10 November 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that (a) forestry and (b) other development proposals are screened to ensure that curlew nesting habitats are not lost.
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Question reference: S5W-11683
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 24 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-11280 by Derek Mackay on 26 September 2017, whether it is considering publishing a response to the UK Government and EU position papers on the financial settlement in the context of withdrawal from the EU, and when it expects to have reached a decision regarding whether or not to do so.
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Question reference: S5W-11736
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 24 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its latest estimate is of the country's breeding curlew population; what proportion of the (a) UK, (b) European and (c) global population this represents, and how this compares with previous years.
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Question reference: S5W-11737
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 03 October 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 24 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the reported decline in the breeding curlew population, including what factors it considers are contributing to this; what action (a) it and (b) its agencies are taking to address the decline and, in light of the Joint Nature Conservation Committee’s recommendations in The status of UK Special Protection Areas in the 2000s: The Third Network Review, what plans it has to establish more protected areas for the species.
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