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: S4W-10995
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 November 2012
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 20 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government who it has consulted on its definition of sustainable economic growth and how it has taken responses into account.
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Question reference: S4W-10998
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 November 2012
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 20 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government in what ways its definition of sustainable economic growth differs from a measure of aggregate GDP growth.
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Question reference: S4W-10984
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 November 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 19 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what money has been made available to it from the UK Government to help meet its (a) climate change and (b) fuel poverty targets; whether it considers that this is sufficient and, if not, whether it plans to raise money from the private sector.
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Question reference: S4W-10757
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 14 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government when (a) it and (b) the Forestry Commission Scotland first became aware of the potential threat of the Chalara fraxinea fungus.
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Question reference: S4W-10760
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 13 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government whether the cases of the Chalara fraxinea fungus found in Scotland are related to imported ash trees or native species.
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Question reference: S4W-10802
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 13 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what financial assistance (a) it and (b) Forestry Commission Scotland will provide to landowners who have to destroy ash trees affected by Chalara fraxinea.
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Question reference: S4W-10622
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 29 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 12 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what economic analysis underpins the statement of the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment reported in the Farmers Guardian on 23 October 2012 that every farm in Scotland would receive £6,000 extra from the common agricultural policy if Scotland separated from the rest of the United Kingdom.
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Question reference: S4W-10759
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 12 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what action (a) it and (b) the Forestry Commission Scotland took on becoming aware of the confirmed cases of the Chalara fraxinea fungus in England in light of its potential to be transmitted via wind and birds.
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Question reference: S4W-10758
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 October 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 12 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what action (a) it and (b) the Forestry Commission Scotland took between first learning about the threat of the Chalara fraxinea fungus and the first confirmed case in Scotland.
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Question reference: S4W-10804
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 November 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 12 November 2012
To ask the Scottish Government what the cost will be of testing ash trees for Chalara fraxinea and who will be responsible for meeting this.