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-05557
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many of the 200 new paramedics announced in July 2016 will be (a) trained and (b) employed in the Grampian area.
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Question reference: S5W-05618
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 10 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-03494 by Fergus Ewing on 26 October 2016, whether rural properties with broadband services that cannot benefit from connection to fibre, as they are more than 1,200 metres from the fibre connection box, are included in the total number of homes that now have access to superfast broadband as a result of its Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programme.
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Question reference: S5W-05613
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 10 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many phone calls have been received by the Home Energy Scotland advice line in each week since 2 October 2016.
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Question reference: S5W-05619
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by James Wolffe QC on 30 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the total cost was of the trial at Aberdeen Sheriff Court that resulted in six men being cleared of rioting at HMP Grampian on 13 May 2014.
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Question reference: S5W-05623
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by James Wolffe QC on 30 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Crown and Procurator Fiscal Service is satisfied that there was sufficient evidence to prosecute the six men who were cleared of rioting at HMP Grampian on 13 May 2014.
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Question reference: S5W-05497
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comment in the letter by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Jobs and Fair Work to the Convener of the Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee of 9 December 2016 that the delivery of the Balmedie to Tipperty section of the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route (AWPR) project had been revised to winter 2017-18; what the cost of this delay will be; what impact it will have on the budget of the overall project, and when the full AWPR will be completed.
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Question reference: S5W-05307
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 13 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many of the 200 new trainee teachers announced by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills on 30 November 2016 will undertake (a) distance learning and (b) conventional courses.
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Question reference: S5W-05306
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2016
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 13 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the announcement by the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills of 30 November 2016, how many of the new trainee teachers undertaking conventional courses will be based at universities or campuses (a) in Aberdeen and UHI in Highland, Moray, Orkney, Shetland and the Western Isles and (b) elsewhere in Scotland.
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Question reference: S5O-00448
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 7 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what role the regional equality councils will play in taking forward its racial equality framework.
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Question reference: S5W-05015
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 24 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 5 December 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5O-00311 by Humza Yousaf on 9 November 2016, what the outcomes were of the ministerial meeting on 10 November 2016 with the chief executive of Seatruck.
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