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-14173
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 29 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 15 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the social and economic benefits of clearing and salting pavements and cycle ways during periods of adverse weather.
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Question reference: S5W-14186
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 15 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-13792 by Humza Yousaf on 18 January 2018, whether it considers there is a difference between a guard and a ticket examiner and, if so, what the difference is, and how many ScotRail services ran without a (a) guard and (b) second member of staff in 2017.
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Question reference: S5W-14120
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 26 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 15 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is aware of ScotRail restricting the times that off-peak tickets are sold at stations.
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Question reference: S5W-14121
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 26 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 15 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding ScotRail charging peak-time fares for tickets bought on board off-peak trains.
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Question reference: S5O-01789
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding safeguarding the value of Scottish university staff pensions.
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Question reference: S5W-14015
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 23 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government further to the answers to questions S5W-13796 and S5W-13797 by Humza Yousaf on 18 January 2018, how many SQUIRE audits were carried out on ScotRail services in 2017; how many failures were recorded, broken down by type of failure, and what the cumulative financial penalty was.
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Question reference: S5W-14038
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-13793 by Humza Yousaf on 23 January 2018, how many services are represented in the statement that "0.78 percent of ScotRail services were subject to skip-stopping", broken down by station skipped.
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Question reference: S5W-14037
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-13795 by Humza Yousaf on 23 January 2018, how many seats 0.35% of capacity represents.
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Question reference: S5W-14036
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 6 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-13801 by Humza Yousaf on 23 January 2018, by what date it will publish the review of its National Transport Strategy.
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Question reference: S5W-13948
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 1 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-13520 by Keith Brown on 16 January 2018, whether it is the cabinet secretary's position that he has no responsibility for the oversight of both bodies.
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