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-04323
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 10 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has made or plans to carry out an assessment of the viability of Scotland having a bespoke migration system and, if so, whether it will publish this.
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Question reference: S5W-04260
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 10 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will meet financial penalties imposed by the EU for not spending Scottish Rural Development Programme (SRDP) funds if guarantees for that funding are not forthcoming at the end of the year.
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Question reference: S5W-04256
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 9 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has regarding future arrangements for managing Scotland's fishing resources after Brexit.
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Question reference: S5W-04258
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 9 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is regarding access for EU fleets to Scottish fishing waters.
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Question reference: S5W-04301
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 9 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what guarantees it can give on replacing EU structural funding that will be lost as a result of Brexit.
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Question reference: S5O-00311
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 November 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 9 November 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether all crew working on vessels that operate on its contracts or receive support from its subsidies are paid at least the national minimum wage.
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Question reference: S5W-03747
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 October 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 27 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-03009 by Annabelle Ewing on 29 September 2016, whether it will provide a breakdown of how many (a) full-time and (b) retained firefighters there have been in each local authority area in each year since 2013-14.
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Question reference: S5W-03494
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 October 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 26 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-03019 by Fergus Ewing on 3 October 2016, what information it has on (a) how many and (b) what percentage of premises in each Scottish Parliamentary constituency has access to broadband speeds of no more than (i) 5, (ii) 10 and (iii) 24Mbps.
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Question reference: S5W-02249
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 6 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how much of the Transition Training Fund, which was announced in February 2016, (a) was spent in 2015-16 and (b) has been spent in 2016-17.
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Question reference: S5W-03019
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 3 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how many and (b) what percentage of premises in each Scottish Parliamentary constituency do not have access to broadband.
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