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-03335
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 May 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the climate emergency, what action it is taking to act on the recommendations of the Committee on Climate Change to deliver low-carbon infrastructure and homes.
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Question reference: S5O-03298
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to tackle rising levels of child poverty.
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Question reference: S5O-03246
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on when the reports on the operation of the Fife Ethylene Plant at Mossmorran by SEPA and the Health and Safety Executive will be published.
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Question reference: S5O-03110
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 4 April 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made in addressing the deficit that was built into the Fife Health and Social Care Partnership when it was established.
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Question reference: S5O-03057
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 March 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Shelter Scotland report, Housing is a human right.
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Question reference: S5O-03016
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 13 March 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what support it is providing in response to the humanitarian crisis in Yemen.
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Question reference: S5W-21615
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 5 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has undertaken of the potential impact of Brexit on science sector jobs.
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Question reference: S5W-21422
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 4 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to address the reported shortfall in cancer diagnostic staff, and what its longer term workforce strategy is for maintaining levels of diagnostic staff.
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Question reference: S5W-21487
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 21 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how much it is spending in mitigating the UK Government's welfare reforms.
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Question reference: S5W-21377
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 19 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its report, Fuel Poverty: Scottish Government response to working group reports, whether it will confirm which of the recommendations that were made by the Scottish Rural Fuel Poverty Task Force in the report, Delivering affordable warmth in rural Scotland: action plan, it has (a) endorsed, broken down by the progress being made with the implication of each and (b) rejected, broken down by reason.