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
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Question reference: S4W-24477
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 February 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 8 October 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by Fergus Ewing on 28 January 2015 (Official Report, c.17), what work will be carried out on strengthening the planning guidance with regard to unconventional oil and gas extraction; which government department or non-government body it will commission to do this; when the work will (a) begin and (b) end; when the findings will be published, and how many full-time equivalent staff will be employed to do this.
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Question reference: S4W-27166
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 21 August 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 1 October 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to use the powers it has over (a) the Renewable Obligations scheme (i) banding and (ii) grandfathering and (b) grace periods for current Renewables Obligation scheme applications to mitigate the impact of the changes to the scheme that were announced on 21 July 2015 by the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change.
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Question reference: S4W-27402
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 September 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 22 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what the current maintenance and repairs backlog is at the (a) 101 service centre in Bucksburn and (b) 999 control room at Queen Street in Aberdeen.
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Question reference: S4W-27399
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 September 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 22 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how many police staff have (a) resigned (b) taken voluntary or early redundancy at the (i) 101 service centre in Bucksburn and (ii) 999 control room at Queen Street in Aberdeen since the planned closure of the two facilities was announced in January 2014.
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Question reference: S4W-27401
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 September 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 22 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how many police (a) officers and (b) staff were working at the (i) 101 service centre in Bucksburn and (ii) 999 control room at Queen Street in Aberdeen when the planned closure of the two facilities were announced in January 2014 and how many are working there now.
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Question reference: S4W-27398
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 September 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 22 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what it estimates the cost will be of (a) recruitment and (b) maintenance and repairs at the (i) 101 service centre in Bucksburn, (ii) 999 control room at Queen Street in Aberdeen and (iii) Inverness control room in order for each facility to meet the standards recommended in the recent Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland (HMICS) report into police call-handling.
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Question reference: S4W-27400
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 September 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 22 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how many police staff have been recruited to work at the (a) 101 service centre in Bucksburn and (b) 999 control room at Queen Street in Aberdeen since the planned closure of the two facilities was announced in January 2014.
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Question reference: S4W-27392
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 September 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 17 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to questions S4W-26945 and S4W-26943 by Michael Matheson on 19 August 2015, for what reason the Cabinet Secretary for Justice stated that the information sought was not held centrally in relation to the number of police officers and civilian staff carrying out Disclosure Scotland checks, in light of the accountability of Disclosure Scotland to the Scottish Ministers as an Executive Agency of the Scottish Government, and whether it will review those responses and now publish the number of (a) police officers and (b) civilian staff carrying out Disclosure Scotland checks.
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Question reference: S4W-27211
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 August 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 10 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it took, prior to the announcement that Fletcher Shipping was to go into administration, to secure the public funds invested in the company through the Scottish Loan Fund.
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Question reference: S4W-27210
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 August 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 10 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how much of the £5 million invested in Fletcher Shipping by the Scottish Loan Fund it expects to be repaid following the announcement that the company has gone into administration.
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