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-11147
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 21 September 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on any action, intervention or inquiries by the Scottish Housing Regulator since 2013-14 regarding registered social landlords who have provided asylum accommodation to Serco as part of its Compass contract with the Home Office.
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Question reference: S5W-11151
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 21 September 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is lawful for evictions of asylum seekers from asylum accommodation managed by Serco as part of its Compass contract with the Home Office to proceed without any recourse to, or oversight by, a Scottish court, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
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Question reference: S5W-11149
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 21 September 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has (a) internal and (b) commissioned legal advice on whether Scottish housing legislation and standards apply to asylum accommodation managed by Serco as part of its Compass contract with the Home Office and, if so, whether it will publish this advice.
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Question reference: S5W-11150
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 21 September 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has shared with (a) Serco and (b) the Home Office any (i) internal and (ii) commissioned legal advice on whether Scottish housing legislation and standards apply to asylum accommodation managed by Serco as part of its Compass contract with the Home Office.
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Question reference: S5F-01537
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 September 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 September 2017
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5W-10823
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 August 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 18 September 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the result of the vote on motion S5M-05864 as amended (Protecting Workers' Rights) on 31 May 2017, whether it will set out what it considers to be “ethical and environmentally-responsible business practices”, and whether tax avoidance practices will be included in this definition.
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Question reference: S5W-10824
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 August 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 18 September 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the result of the vote on motion S5M-05864 as amended (Protecting Workers' Rights), whether it considers tax avoidance to be grounds to cease or limit the provision of government support and funding.
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Question reference: S5W-10822
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 August 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 18 September 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the result of the vote on motion S5M-05864 as amended (Protecting Workers' Rights) on 31 May 2017, what action it has taken to support the Better than Zero campaign.
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Question reference: S5W-10821
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 August 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 12 September 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will implement the terms of motion S5M-05864 as amended (Protecting Workers' Rights), which was agreed by the Parliament on 31 May 2017, and, if so, what specific action it will take to “make access to government support and funding dependent on clear ethical and environmentally-responsible business practices” and when.
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Question reference: S5O-01240
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 September 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 September 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on whether it plans to legislate for the mandatory installation of CCTV in abattoirs to monitor animal welfare.