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: S6W-07239
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 11 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 23 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the timescale for revising the Clean Air Act 1993 in coordination with local authorities and SEPA, as outlined in Cleaner Air for Scotland 2.
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Question reference: S6W-07034
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 17 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether there is a 70% recycling target for household waste, as set out in annex A, section 5.5, of Scotland's Zero Waste Plan.
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Question reference: S6W-07033
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 17 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what greenhouse gas emissions changes it estimates there would be from converting Scotland’s energy-from-waste plants to (a) combined heat and power systems and (b) carbon capture and storage systems, and when it anticipates any such changes will occur.
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Question reference: S6W-07032
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 17 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S6W-05516 and S6W-05517 by Lorna Slater on 24 January 2022, what emissions have been modelled for incineration with energy recovery as part of its Greenhouse Gas Inventory reports to date.
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Question reference: S6W-06547
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 11 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it can introduce a Direct Vision Standard for HGVs in Scotland, and, if so, what consideration it has given to this.
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Question reference: S6W-07031
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Jackson Carlaw on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body when it will proceed with the appointment of a new Scottish Parliamentary Pension Scheme trustee board.
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Question reference: S6W-06175
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 9 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in cases of restrictions of the use of general licences on certain land-holdings, where “the regulator has lost trust or confidence”, as stated by NatureScot, what its position is on how the regulator can regain enough trust and confidence to issue individual licences to employees of that same land-holding to undertake the same activities prohibited by the restriction.
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Question reference: S6W-06176
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 9 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether individual licences to carry out control of certain generalist predator species should be issued to employees of landholdings, when the general licence allowing this same activity has been suspended by NatureScot.
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Question reference: S6W-06053
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 2 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether the new ScotRail operator, ScotRail Trains Ltd, will honour the commitment to staff, reportedly offered under the existing franchise agreement, to no compulsory redundancies until at least 2025.
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