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: S5W-35348
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 19 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it uses symptomatic COVID-19 testing to establish the rate of positivity, and what consideration it has given to using data from sentinel testing.
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Question reference: S5W-35395
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 1 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it will ensure that the process of deciding on criteria for national developments to be incorporated into National Planning Framework 4 will be participative, and whether it has considered using a citizen’s assembly to discuss the proposals for national developments.
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Question reference: S5W-35396
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 1 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how it will decide the criteria for national developments to be incorporated into National Planning Framework 4, and what the process leading up to that decision will be.
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Question reference: S5W-35188
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 12 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 26 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when the retrospective island communities impact assessment of Highlands and Islands Airports Limited's (HIAL) proposed Air Traffic Management Strategy programme will be published.
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Question reference: S5W-35089
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 24 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when it will provide an update on work being carried out to consider (a) fares on ferry routes across the Pentland Firth, and (b) an agreed mechanism for delivering Road Equivalent Tariff (RET) in Orkney and Shetland.
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Question reference: S5W-33954
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2020
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 23 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when care-dependent people who live at home will receive the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Question reference: S5W-35015
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 05 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 23 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on proposals for national fixed pricing on electricity distribution networks; whether it has discussed this with the UK Government in the last 12 months and, if so, whether it will publish the outcome of these discussions.
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Question reference: S5W-35455
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 February 2021
- Current Status: Answer expected on 8 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what financial support is (a) available and (b) being considered for fitness instructors, personal trainers, sport coaches and other freelance physical activity workers who have been unable to operate due to the COVID-19 restrictions.
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Question reference: S5W-35028
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 22 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what financial support is available to wholesalers in areas subject to Level 3 restrictions, that are reliant on the retail, catering and hospitality sectors.
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Question reference: S5W-35086
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 22 February 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what support it will make available to distilleries, in line with the Brewers Support Fund.