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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government what progress the Scottish Funding Council has made on establishing an advisory forum as recommended by the Review of Higher Education Governance in Scotland and who the members of the forum are.
To ask the Scottish Government what the expected energy output is of tidal turbines in the next five years.
To ask the Scottish Government which stakeholders have been engaged as implementing partners following the Review of Higher Education Governance in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government what progress the Scottish Funding Council has made on investigating how the principles of the Hutton Review of Fair Pay in the Public Sector are being or should be applied to universities in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has made a forecast of how much renewable energy England would purchase from an independent Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-13213 by John Swinney on 22 February 2013, whether it will provide the salary level for each special adviser.
To ask the Scottish Government whether an independent Scotland would be a net importer of energy, and, if so, what form of energy.
To ask the Scottish Government whether an independent Scotland would need to import energy from England and, if so, what form of energy.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has carried out a comparative analysis of current energy provision and energy provision in an independent Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to change how the money raised from landfill tax credits is distributed to communities affected by nearby landfill sites and what the reasons are for any such changes.