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
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Question reference: S4W-28965
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 December 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 8 January 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-04702 by Alex Neil on 28 October 2015 (Official Report, c. 19), whether meeting its statutory target "as far as is reasonably practicable" has always been its approach to eradicating fuel poverty and, if so, whether the underlying meaning of that phrase has changed in light of the external factors that have developed since 2011.
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Question reference: S4W-28967
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 December 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 8 January 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-04702 by Alex Neil on 28 October 2015 (Official Report, c. 19), what additional scenarios it has modelled for measuring fuel poverty other than the notional inflationary increase in fuel prices since 2011.
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Question reference: S4W-28964
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 December 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 8 January 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4O-04702 by Alex Neil on 28 October 2015 (Official Report, c. 19), what changes to the fuel poverty target it has made in light of the external factors that have developed since 2011.
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Question reference: S4W-28961
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 December 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 8 January 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-28781 by Margaret Burgess on 14 December 2015, in light of the information not being provided in the answer to S4O-04702, whether it will provide the information that was requested and confirm whether it is on target to eradicate fuel poverty by November 2016 and, if not, whether it will set a revised target.
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Question reference: S4W-28963
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 December 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 8 January 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S4W-28781 by Margaret Burgess on 14 December 2015 and S4O-04702 by Alex Neil on 28 October 2015 (Official Report, c. 19), whether it has considered a reassessment of the 2016 fuel poverty target after the 2016 UK Budget.
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Question reference: S4W-28867
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 6 January 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the status is of the Scottish European Green Energy Centre.
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Question reference: S4W-28868
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 6 January 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the main achievements of the Scottish European Green Energy Centre have been since its launch in 2009.
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Question reference: S4W-28870
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 6 January 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how it has kept the Parliament informed of developments regarding the Scottish European Green Energy Centre since its launch in 2009.
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Question reference: S4W-28869
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 6 January 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the budget has been for the Scottish European Green Energy Centre in each year since its launch in 2009.
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Question reference: S4W-28321
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 06 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 23 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it has not published its response to Meeting Scotland's Childcare Challenge: The Report of the Commission for Childcare Reform.