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: S4O-04809
- Asked by: Colin Beattie, MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 November 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with NHS boards regarding planning for winter.
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Question reference: S4O-04766
- Asked by: Colin Beattie, MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 November 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 11 November 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what the impact on its climate targets is of the UK Government’s energy policies.
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Question reference: S4O-04718
- Asked by: Colin Beattie, MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 October 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 October 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding how many local authorities use the Water Direct scheme to deduct water and sewerage charges, and whether this includes Midlothian and East Lothian councils.
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Question reference: S4O-04675
- Asked by: Colin Beattie, MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 September 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 October 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how it will work with further and higher education institutions to ensure that students in receipt of employment and support allowance will not find their education disrupted when universal credit is rolled out.
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Question reference: S4O-04663
- Asked by: Colin Beattie, MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 September 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 October 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what changes it expects to make to personal independence payments following their devolution.
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Question reference: S4W-27520
- Asked by: Colin Beattie, MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 September 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 22 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-26951 by John Swinney on 31 July 2015, whether it will provide an update on the progress that is being made with regard to the EU accounting requirements, and what information it has regarding when funding will be released for the Newbattle High School project.
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Question reference: S4O-04612
- Asked by: Colin Beattie, MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 September 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the Court of Session's recent decision not to overturn NHS Lothian’s withdrawal of prescriptive homeopathic medicine to a Midlothian resident.
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Question reference: S4O-04597
- Asked by: Colin Beattie, MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 September 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 16 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what the impact on its policy will be of reports that Germany, Latvia and Greece are to opt out of growing genetically modified crops.
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Question reference: S4W-26583
- Asked by: Colin Beattie, MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 July 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 4 August 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what resources are deployed toward the use of (a) woodlands and (b) other green spaces to improve the (i) wellbeing, (ii) educational and (iii) employment prospects of (A) young people experiencing difficulties and (B) adults with mental illness.
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Question reference: S4W-26584
- Asked by: Colin Beattie, MSP for Midlothian North and Musselburgh, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 July 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 4 August 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what support it can provide toward establishing pilot programmes to assess the efficacy of green space therapy.
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