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-27456
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 29 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to start its consultation on unconventional oil and gas extraction.
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Question reference: S4W-27455
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 29 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how it plans to gather evidence to inform its position on unconventional coal gasification.
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Question reference: S4W-27458
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 29 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) individuals and (b) organisations it has approached for evidence on the appropriateness of unconventional oil and gas extraction.
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Question reference: S4T-01130
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 28 September 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the option of allowing mixed-sex couples to form civil partnerships.
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Question reference: S4W-27410
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 September 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 25 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how the pilot library card scheme for children is being progressed, and whether the Improvement Service will administer this through the National Entitlement Card.
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Question reference: S4O-04631
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 September 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what work it has undertaken in the last year on the currency options for Scotland, either in the current constitutional context or in the future.
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Question reference: S4W-26058
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 June 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 23 June 2015
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish an analysis of the responses to the consultation on the proposed amendments to the National Health Service Central Register (Scotland) Regulations 2006, and whether it plans to implement the proposed amendments.
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Question reference: S4W-25638
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 May 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 5 June 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the implications of the proposed carbon price support exemption for restoration-related coal in relation to (a) state aid and (b) competition laws.
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Question reference: S4W-25636
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 May 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 5 June 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the implications for the environment of linking restoration of open cast coal sites to further extraction of coal at or adjacent to derelict open cast coal mines.
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Question reference: S4W-25635
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 May 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 5 June 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the risks to (a) the environment and (b) local communities of any further collapse in the open cast coal industry.
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