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-28946
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 December 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 23 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the holding answer to question S4W-28321 by Aileen Campbell on 20 November 2015, for what reason it has been unable to provide the written response to the Commission for Childcare Reform’s report, given that it stated in its news release on 4 November 2015, New group to help expand early learning and childcare, that a response had been given at the Children in Scotland conference.
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Question reference: S4W-28947
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 December 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 23 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it has not provided a substantive response to question S4W-28321, which received a holding answer on 20 November 2015, and when it will provide such a response.
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Question reference: S4W-28833
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 17 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has modelled the impact of increasing the student loan repayment threshold on the cost of the resource accounting and budgeting charge for providing student loans and what opportunity there is to do so in the current non-cash departmental expenditure limit.
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Question reference: S4W-28830
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 17 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how much non-cash departmental expenditure limit it required to cover the cost of providing loans to Scottish-domiciled students in each of the last four years, and how much the Treasury provided toward meeting this.
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Question reference: S4W-28832
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 December 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 17 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what the (a) resource accounting cost and (b) budgeting charge is for providing student loans, also expressed as a percentage of initial loan outlay.
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Question reference: S4O-05224
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 January 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has carried out of the number of beds needed in the proposed new Balfour hospital in Orkney.
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Question reference: S4W-28755
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 December 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 15 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government (a) what action it has taken and (b) how much it has spent in each of the last five years to protect woodland in remote and rural places, including in Orkney.
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Question reference: S4W-28781
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 December 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 14 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is on target to meet its statutory requirement under the Housing (Scotland) Act 2001 to eradicate fuel poverty by November 2016 and, if not, whether it will set a revised target.
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Question reference: S4W-28693
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 10 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4T-01189 by Aileen Campbell on 24 November 2015 (Official Report, c. 3), what steps it took to advise the Parliament of the decision to dissolve the Getting It Right for Every Child Programme Board.
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Question reference: S4W-28694
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 November 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 10 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how much public funding it has given to universities in each of the last five years toward funding projects that are being carried out at CERN.