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-13357
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 February 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 14 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the effectiveness and sufficiency of the policy that 25% of new housing units should be affordable housing.
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Question reference: S4W-13354
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 February 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 14 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how many households have been given support by the Home Owners' Support Fund.
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Question reference: S4W-13359
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 February 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 14 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how many cases the Private Rented Housing Panel has dealt with in each year.
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Question reference: S4W-13358
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 February 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 14 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how many hits the Landlord Registration Scotland website has received in each year.
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Question reference: S4W-13356
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 February 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 14 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will establish a set of minimum physical, locational, service and management standards for temporary accommodation.
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Question reference: S4W-13355
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 February 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 14 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what its budget is for the Home Owners' Support Fund for (a) 2013-14 and (b) 2014-15.
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Question reference: S4W-13347
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 February 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 6 March 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route project cost estimate of £653 million includes (a) all consequential costs for other works required to complete the project and (b) money spent in previous years.
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Question reference: S4W-12680
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 21 February 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how many hybrid buses are in operation; what percentage of the bus fleet this represents, and what measures it has planned to achieve the 50% market penetration suggested as achievable by 2027 in Low Carbon Scotland: Meeting our Emissions Reduction Targets 2013-2027: The Draft Second Report on Proposals and Policies.
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Question reference: S4O-01785
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 6 February 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what input its Health and Social Care Directorate made to the draft second report on proposals and policies.
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Question reference: S4W-12463
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 22 January 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 30 January 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) fuel and (b) carbon emissions savings have been made as a result of the Scottish Green Bus Fund.