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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: S5F-02964

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 14 January 2019
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 17 January 2019

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5W-20781

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2018
Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 11 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what the planned expenditure under its draft budget is for the Home Energy Efficiency Programmes for Scotland (HEEPS), and for each component programme, including (a) Area Based Schemes, (b) Scotland’s Energy Efficiency Programme (SEEP) Pilots, (c) Warmer Homes Scotland and (d) the Home Energy Scotland Loan Scheme.

The draft budget for Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency in 2019-20 is £119.6m, which now includes an element of Total Operating Costs, as explained in Annex G of the 19/20 Budget. This figure also includes planned expenditure for all the current Home Energy Efficiency Programmes for Scotland (HEEPS). The component programmes for HEEPS are Area Based Schemes (£49m); Warmer Homes Scotland (£24m); Home Energy Scotland and other relevant loan schemes (£30m); energy efficiency and fuel poverty advice services (£10.6m).

Some of the pilot schemes delivered as part of Energy Efficiency Scotland (previously SEEP) and support for transition to the EES programme will also be funded from this budget. Details of these schemes are yet to be announced. However over £1m from the Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency budget supported delivery of EES (including SEEP pilots) in 2018-19.

Question reference: S5W-20782

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2018
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 9 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of its overall capital spending for 2019-20, as set out in its draft Budget, has been allocated to (a) low carbon, (b) neutral and (c) high carbon projects.

Question reference: S5W-20780

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2018
Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 9 January 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has made of increasing the percentage of its overall capital budget for 2019-20, as set out in the draft Budget, to be invested in low-carbon projects, in line with commitments it made in January 2018.

The Scottish Government is committed to increasing the percentage of the capital budget invested in low carbon projects. The following table, which includes financial transactions expenditure, shows that the planned investment on low carbon projects, as a percentage of the Scottish Government’s overall capital budget, has increased between 2018-19 and 2019-20, using the methodology from the Low Carbon Task Force’s report “The Case for Low Carbon Infrastructure in Scotland”.

	% of SG Infrastructure Spend that is:
	Low Carbon	Carbon Neutral	High Carbon
2018-19	29.1	59.3	11.6
2019-20	31.8	58.1	10.1

Question reference: S5F-02928

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 07 January 2019
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 January 2019

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-02869

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 10 December 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 December 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5O-02675

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 December 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 December 2018

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the development of new tools for HIV prevention and treatment, what action it is taking to update its 2015-20 sexual health and blood borne virus framework.

Question reference: S5F-02849

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 03 December 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 December 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5F-02795

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 November 2018

Question to be taken in Chamber.

Question reference: S5O-02575

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 November 2018
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 November 2018

To ask the Scottish Government whether it expects to legislate on hate crime during the current parliamentary session, following the end of the consultation process in 2019.