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-28433
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 12 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 25 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government when it expects ScotRail to begin services using Hitachi AT200 commuter trains and what contingencies are in place to improve the current rolling stock should the introduction be delayed.
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Question reference: S4O-04873
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 November 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it anticipates any public order issues arising from so-called Black Friday events being run by retailers.
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Question reference: S4W-28211
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 12 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what impact the closure of Longannet power station will have on the (a) operation and (b) future development of the Stirling-Alloa-Kincardine rail line.
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Question reference: S4W-28203
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 12 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comments by the Minister for Environment, Climate and Land Reform on 27 October 2015 (Official Report, c. 31), how it plans to work with the Committee on Climate Change to continue to investigate further abatement from measures that go beyond current policies.
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Question reference: S4W-28209
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 12 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister will be attending the 2015 UN conference in Paris on climate change.
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Question reference: S4O-04789
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 12 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how much it plans to spend in 2016-17 on its national infrastructure priority on energy efficiency.
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Question reference: S4W-28205
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 10 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government who attended each of the 2015 UN Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings in Bonn on its behalf, and what their role was at the meetings.
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Question reference: S4W-28202
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 10 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what action it (a) is taking and (b) plans to take in 2016-17 regarding the national infrastructure priority on energy efficiency.
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Question reference: S4W-28206
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 10 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government who attended the July 2015 conference, Our Common Future Under Climate Change, on its behalf, and what their role was at the conference.
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Question reference: S4W-28207
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 October 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 10 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what meetings with UK ministers regarding the 2015 UN conference in Paris on climate change the Minister for the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform (a) has had and (b) plans, and what (i) activities and (ii) meetings the minister plans when attending the conference.