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-03179
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 12 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to encourage recycling and separate food waste collections in rural and island communities.
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Question reference: S5W-03180
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 12 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has carried out regarding whether local authorities have the right facilities in place to (a) respond to the municipal bio-degradable waste ban and (b) reduce emissions from non-municipal waste sent to landfill.
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Question reference: S5W-03168
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 12 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government further to the answer to question S5W-02362 by Fergus Ewing on 15 September 2016, whether the US regulations will only allow imports from countries where it is against the law for companies to deliberately kill marine mammals regardless of whether individual exporting companies engaged in such activities.
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Question reference: S5W-03167
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 12 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-02631 by Roseanna Cunningham on 15 September 2016, whether the deliberate killing of marine mammals under controlled circumstances complies with the US regulations that prohibit imports from fisheries where marine animals are intentionally harmed.
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Question reference: S5W-03174
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 7 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take to reduce emissions from heavy goods vehicles.
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Question reference: S5W-03172
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 7 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to encourage the use of electric vehicles, and what support it provides toward the (a) up-front cost and (b) roll-out of preferential road access.
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Question reference: S5W-03078
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether incidents of E.coli infection in the Carnoustie area have been confirmed as being caused by the same strain of E.coli O157:H7 that caused infections earlier in summer 2016.
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Question reference: S5W-03077
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether food testing facilities available to local authorities are capable of isolating pathogenic E.coli strains, or of detecting the presence of stx genes alone.
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Question reference: S5W-03079
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of media reports that Food Standards Scotland had no evidence definitively linking recent incidents of E.coli infection with unpasteurised cheese, whether this is the case.
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Question reference: S5W-03080
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 October 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether decisions by Food Standards Scotland regarding food action alerts in relation to E.coli are made on the basis of isolating pathogenic E.coli strains, or on the basis of detecting the presence of stx genes alone.
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