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: S6W-12244
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 November 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 1 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what steps are being taken to ensure that any food delivery drivers participating in the Deposit Return Scheme’s online takeback service only return recyclable items ordered on the relevant delivery platform and are not asked to return containers from other sources, such as supermarkets.
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Question reference: S6W-12327
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 November 2022
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will clarify the role of Zero Waste Scotland in the governance structure of the National Strategy for Economic Transformation.
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Question reference: S6W-12278
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 November 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 30 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish advice regarding the safest and most environmentally friendly ways to dispose of vaping products.
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Question reference: S6W-12279
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 November 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 29 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the environmental impacts of single-use disposable vapes.
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Question reference: S6W-12280
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 17 November 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 29 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many fires have been caused in local authority waste and recycling centres and in transport taking waste or recycling to such centres by lithium contained within disposable vaping products being crushed.
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Question reference: S6W-12008
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 28 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason fewer than 10% of faults on the public electric vehicle (EV) charger network reportedly identified in a recent BBC investigation appeared in official logs.
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Question reference: S6W-12032
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 November 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Clare Haughey on 22 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many times since 2016 it has met with COSLA to progress the introduction of a national minimum allowance for foster carers, and whether it expects to be able to introduce a minimum allowance before the end of the current parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S6W-12009
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 November 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on how many minutes of downtime were recorded across the public electric vehicle (EV) charger network in each of the last 12 months, broken down by local authority area.
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Question reference: S6W-12010
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 November 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 22 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on how many fault reports submitted by members of the public regarding the public electric vehicle (EV) charger network were received in each of the last 12 months.
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Question reference: S6W-11957
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 November 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 17 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will act on the suggestion of the First Minister’s Environmental Council at its meeting in June 2022 to further investigate the “use of critical elements such as Lithium”.
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