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: S5O-03892
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 December 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 December 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has made any preparations for working with a Labour-led UK administration.
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Question reference: S5O-03849
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 November 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 4 December 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to introduce a deposit return scheme for drinks containers.
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Question reference: S5W-26407
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 November 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 26 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it remains committed to using the mutual investment model (MIM) for funding infrastructure projects and, if so, what its response is to the comment by the Finance Committee of the National Assembly for Wales in its report, Inquiry into the Welsh Government’s capital funding sources, that "it is hard to establish a significant difference between the two models [MIM and PFI], specifically as to how MIM offers greater value for money than previous PFI models".
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Question reference: S5O-03831
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 November 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the establishment of a Scottish stock exchange.
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Question reference: S5F-03732
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 November 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 November 2019
To ask the First Minister how the Scottish Government is supporting shipbuilding in Fife and across Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-25824
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 30 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether sensors have been fitted to the Queensferry Crossing to alert engineers to the hazard of ice building up on its cables, with risk of it falling on to the carriageways.
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Question reference: S5W-25630
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to the economic and environmental costs on the salmon fishing industry when considering its support for the open cage salmon farming industry in Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-25632
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 29 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what studies it has conducted of the impact on the freshwater salmon fishing industry of the open cage salmon farming industry in Scotland.
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Question reference: S5O-03680
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 October 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what targets it has set local authorities to deliver accessible housing.
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Question reference: S5W-25631
- Asked by: Murdo Fraser, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 21 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has conducted an economic analysis of the salmon farming industry in Scotland and, if so, whether it will publish this.