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.
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To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its 27 June 2012 announcement of additional money toward building homes, whether it has revised its target of building 30,000 affordable homes and, if so, what the new target is.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the additional money announced on 27 June 2012 for affordable housing, how many affordable homes it plans to build in the current parliamentary session, in addition to the 30,000 previously announced.
To ask the Scottish Government what guidance it has given to planning authorities regarding the assessment of effects of development proposals on stored carbon in peat and other carbon-rich soils.
To ask the Scottish Government what guidance it has given to planning authorities regarding defining degraded peatland that has been significantly damaged by human activity, in order to determine the acceptability of proposals for commercial peat extraction.
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that applicants assess the effects of development proposals on stored carbon in peat and other carbon-rich soils.
To ask the Scottish Government what guidance it has given to planning authorities regarding determining the conservation value and restoration potential of degraded peatland, in order to determine the acceptability of proposals for commercial peat extraction.
To ask the Scottish Executive which ScotRail-operated services Transport Scotland consider as inter-city; what stations they call at, and which have fares that are (a) regulated by the (i) Scottish and (ii) UK Government and (b) unregulated.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it records planning consents for peat extraction centrally and how it accounts for carbon loss under national greenhouse gas reporting.
To ask the Scottish Executive what pension provision it would make in an independent Scotland and where the funds would come from.
To ask the Scottish Executive how many pressured areas each local authority has created since the Housing (Scotland) Act 2010 came into force, broken down by month of creation.