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-17515
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 September 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 28 October 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what guidance exists for schools regarding the appropriate way to teach evolution.
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Question reference: S4O-02509
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 October 2013
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 October 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what safeguards are in place to regulate the undercover policing of non-violent political protest and what the extent of such activity is in Scotland.
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Question reference: S4W-17672
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 07 October 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 23 October 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how its consultation on the regulation of the coal industry will link to its revision of Scottish Planning Policy.
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Question reference: S4T-00474
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 07 October 2013
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 October 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it is giving to the future of local government powers and finance.
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Question reference: S4W-16702
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 August 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 2 October 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what powers it has to extend new applications for accreditation under the Renewables Obligation beyond the proposed end date of 2017 and whether it plans to exercise these.
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Question reference: S4W-17082
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 September 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 19 September 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what powers it has to prevent adverts that might be considered offensive, misleading or liable to incite racial hatred being placed in public buildings.
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Question reference: S4W-16699
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 August 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 6 September 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its target to eradicate fuel poverty, what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding the cost of the Energy Company Obligation on people in Scotland.
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Question reference: S4W-16474
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 5 September 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether an independent Scotland would have the technical capability to protect internet traffic from surveillance by UK intelligence agencies.
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Question reference: S4W-16476
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 5 September 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how many high-capacity cables taking internet traffic in and out of Scotland do so without passing through other parts of the UK.
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Question reference: S4W-16475
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 5 September 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether internet (a) infrastructure and (b) surveillance will be addressed in the white paper on independence.
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