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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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 25 November 2024
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Question reference: S6W-10379

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 14 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to its Deposit Return Scheme, when Circularity Scotland will publish Return Handling Fees for online takeback.

Question reference: S6W-10382

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 14 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to its Deposit Return Scheme, when Circularity Scotland will publish designs for the return counting process for online takeback.

Question reference: S6W-10380

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 14 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to support online retailers to prepare for the online takeback component of its Deposit Return Scheme.

Question reference: S6W-10333

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 13 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what strategic plan it has for Scotland’s wool industry.

Question reference: S6W-10336

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 13 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment has been made of consumption emissions associated with imported textiles, and what plans it has to reduce such emissions.

Question reference: S6W-10332

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 13 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how it will support training in traditional textile manufacturing skills, in light of its commitment to extended producer responsibility.

Question reference: S6W-10337

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 13 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to ban plastic use in textiles.

Question reference: S6W-10334

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 13 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the challenges facing wool farmers and what targeted support it plans to provide to them.

Question reference: S6W-10252

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 11 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 7 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many waste water treatment works (a) there are and (b) monitoring exercises (i) were carried out during the Chemical Investigation Programme 2 (CIP2) and (ii) are planned for CIP3, in each case broken down by local authority.

Question reference: S6W-10335

  • Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 16 August 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 6 September 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of wool produced in Scotland is used in (a) Scottish and (b) other UK textile manufacturing.