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-26136
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 01 November 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 13 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government by what date its fair delivery charges map for parcels will be launched.
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Question reference: S5W-26135
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 01 November 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 13 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether its development of an interactive data hub to measure the fairness of delivery pricing in rural areas is expected to commence before 2020 and, if not, by what date it will do so.
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Question reference: S5W-26139
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 01 November 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 13 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how it uses the Improving Consumer Outcomes Fund to tackle unfair and misleading delivery charges in rural areas, and what analysis it has carried out of the effectiveness of this.
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Question reference: S5W-26004
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 28 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 12 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what funding agreements have been put in place to facilitate Police Scotland support for policing demonstrations held in England.
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Question reference: S5W-25997
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 28 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 11 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many of the 30,000 premises that will benefit from full direct fibre broadband via the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband programme are in Orkney.
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Question reference: S5W-26092
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when it expects the proposed Deposit Return Scheme Islands Forum to be established; what its (a) remit and (b) membership will be, and how often it will meet.
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Question reference: S5W-25661
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 07 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 4 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-25336 by Humza Yousaf on 30 September 2019, whether it will provide details of the reconfiguration of the prison estate that has been undertaken.
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Question reference: S5W-25657
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 31 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many bottle recycling banks there are in each local authority area.
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Question reference: S5W-25776
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 31 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how it issues to its staff guidance regarding the appropriate modes of communication that should be used for business purposes, and whether it will (a) publish or (b) place in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (SPICe) a copy of this guidance.
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Question reference: S5W-25773
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 30 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish a list of the modes of communication used by (a) ministers, (b) special advisers and (c) its officials for business purposes, and how it monitors the use of these.
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