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: S6W-03589
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 26 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its environmental targets, the reported urgency of the climate and nature emergencies, and the role that Scotland’s peatlands play as a carbon store and habitat, whether it will have a licensing scheme in place for muirburn, including a ban on almost all burning on peat, in time for the next muirburn season starting on 1 October 2022.
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Question reference: S6W-03329
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to publish an updated islands communities impact assessment to accompany its revised short-term let licensing order.
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Question reference: S6W-03330
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason its 2020 islands communities impact assessment for short-term let licensing and control areas did not assess the financial impact of such regulation on short-term let operators in island communities.
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Question reference: S6W-03328
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the reported concerns of officials from The Highland Council that the introduction of overprovision through the short-term let licensing scheme “is confusing, as the purpose would appear very similar to control areas.”
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Question reference: S6W-03331
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its 2020 islands communities impact assessment for short-term let licensing and control areas, what data it used to conclude that “noise and anti-social behaviour can be an issue in rural and island areas, particularly from larger 'party mansion' type properties”, and how it defines a "party mansion".
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Question reference: S6W-03446
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 22 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it will publish its remote, rural and island housing action plan.
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Question reference: S6W-03428
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 19 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to support the roll-out of defibrillator devices in rural and island communities.
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Question reference: S6W-02446
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 18 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it expects a COVID-19 digital vaccine app to be available to people in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-03486
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 13 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what the average number of hours per week that convicted prisoners spend on purposeful activity (a) across the prison estate and (b) in each penal establishment has been in each year since 2016-17, also broken down by those on (i) short sentences, (ii) long sentences and (iii) remand.
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Question reference: S6W-03317
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 8 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many Scottish Legal Complaints Commission (SLCC) determination committee meetings there have been in each of the last three years.