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
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Question reference: S6W-06343
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills to the Education, Children and Young People Committee on 28 January 2022, whether it will publish the informal local authority feedback it referred to as being used to calculate the £5 million schools/ELC ventilation fund; what data this contained; on what dates meetings about this took place, and whether it will publish any minutes.
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Question reference: S6W-06346
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills to the Education, Children and Young People Committee on 28 January 2022, whether any audit will be conducted of the “educated assumptions” that led to it calculating that £5 million was the funding necessary for further remedial work on ventilation in schools.
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Question reference: S6W-06344
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will update the Parliament on a monthly basis on how the schools/ELC ventilation fund is being (a) distributed and (b) spent, including a breakdown of the items purchased and changes made.
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Question reference: S6W-06908
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the information for 2021 regarding the number of additional support for learning (a) teachers and (b) classroom assistants that there were in each local authority.
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Question reference: S6W-06347
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 4 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills to the Education, Children and Young People Committee on 28 January 2022, how it calculated that £150 is the cost of undercutting a door.
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Question reference: S6W-06375
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to reduce the quantity of unused paint being sent to landfill or for incineration.
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Question reference: S6W-06374
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing for research into more sustainable alternatives to polymers in liquid formulations (PLFs).
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Question reference: S6W-06376
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it is working with local authorities to support the recycling and reuse of household paint.
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Question reference: S6W-06377
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 28 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it has taken to improve public awareness of paint recycling and reuse initiatives.
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Question reference: S6W-06354
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 24 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills to the Education, Children and Young People Committee on 28 January 2022, whether it will publish a breakdown of the number of problematic spaces by (a) local authority and (b) school.
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