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: S5O-01372
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 October 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 26 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the research by Sustrans, which suggests that around one million people in Scotland live in areas at risk of transport poverty.
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Question reference: S5W-11640
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 25 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of whether there are any potential additional threats posed to communities that contain premises involved in the design, manufacture or sale of armaments.
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Question reference: S5W-11641
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 24 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether its support for companies involved in the design, manufacture or sale of armaments is consistent with its position on the Trident weapons system.
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Question reference: S5W-11642
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 24 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment (a) it and (b) Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) has made of the impact on the reputation of the Highlands and Islands of HIE hosting a free workshop to promote defence industries.
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Question reference: S5T-00720
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 October 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports of institutional racism in Police Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-11062
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what the annual (a) operating costs and (b) passenger fare revenues were for Orkney Ferries in each year since 2010-11.
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Question reference: S5W-11061
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) staff and (b) passengers it estimates would be affected by adding the inter-island ferry services on the Orkney Isles that are currently provided by Orkney Ferries to the routes in the public contract for Northern Isles Ferry Services.
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Question reference: S5W-11334
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by James Wolffe QC on 3 October 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-10992 by James Wolffe QC on 24 August 2017, for what reason the Crown Office decided against prosecuting the football supporters from the Netherlands who were accused of assault and vandalism in Glasgow in November 2015 in favour of them being prosecuted in the Netherlands.
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Question reference: S5W-11445
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 September 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the impact that the Ferry Procurement Review could have on the (a) delivery and (b) cost of new vessels for the Clyde and Hebrides network.
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Question reference: S5W-11444
- Asked by: John Finnie, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 September 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 September 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many times the Expert Ferry Group has met since 2013, and on what date it will next meet.