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-21505
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 February 2019
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 27 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government (a) how many, (b) at what location and (c) on what dates stakeholder events were held in 2018 to support farmers meet the requirements of the ban on incineration of farm plastic waste.
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Question reference: S5W-21434
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 26 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out or plans of the feral cat population, and what action it is taking to manage it.
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Question reference: S5W-21435
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 26 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of it closing to new applicants across the rest of the UK from March 2019, whether it will retain the feed-in-tariffs scheme.
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Question reference: S5W-21429
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2019
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 26 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to expanding waste data capture protocols to include resource inputs, waste arising and waste fate regarding both regulated sites and material exemptions.
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Question reference: S5W-21433
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2019
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 20 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reviewing the regulations regarding the co-digestion of sewage sludge.
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Question reference: S5W-21423
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2019
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 20 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the potential value of fats, oils and grease discarded into the sewer system as a bioresource, and of potential resource capture mechanisms for these.
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Question reference: S5W-21432
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2019
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 20 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had regarding widening circular economic activity in the treatment of sewage sludge after the current treatment contracts end.
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Question reference: S5W-19383
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Monday, 15 October 2018
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 1 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-18767 by Roseanna Cunningham on 20 September 2018, what consideration was given to the results of the 2012-13 absorbent hygiene product collection pilot to ensure that these products were recycled in Scotland, rather than incinerated or landfilled.
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Question reference: S5W-18714
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 September 2018
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 26 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what metrics it uses to assess the (a) environmental and (b) economic impact of activities and projects funded through Community Resources Network Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-18715
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 September 2018
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 25 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-17795 by Roseanna Cunningham on 14 August 2018, whether it will provide the information that was requested regarding the (a) lifetime identified carbon savings, (b) decreases in waste arisings and (c) total cost savings for the businesses supported.
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