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-02546
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 14 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the salmon industry's reported plan to expand production by up to 400,000 tonnes by 2030 is economically and ecologically viable.
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Question reference: S5W-19615
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 25 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 6 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government in which countries in the (a) EU and (b) rest of the world it has an office, broken down by the (i) annual running cost of and (ii) number of staff employed by each office.
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Question reference: S5O-02425
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 September 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 October 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the teacher-pupil ratio or class sizes in primary schools has an impact on learning outcomes.
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Question reference: S5O-02309
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 August 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many contracts for the manufacture of renewable technologies have been awarded to Scottish-based companies in the last five years and what the total value is of these.
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Question reference: S5W-17860
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 27 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what procedure is followed in response to a request for extending the period at the expiry of which a deemed planning permission for an electricity generating station or overhead electricity line development would lapse, as initially directed by the Scottish Ministers under section 58 of the Town and Country Planning (Scotland) Act 1997, and what statutory provision allows for this procedure.
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Question reference: S5W-17859
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 23 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will list the projects where an extension of the period within which an electricity generating station or overhead electricity line development must commence has been (a) requested and (b) granted when the development has previously been granted consent under section 36 or 37 of the Electricity Act 1989.
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Question reference: S5W-17897
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 27 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 20 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports that Lochgelly Medical Practice has been unsuccessful in filling vacant posts or recruiting enough locum GPs to ensure that all vacated sessions are provided for, what steps it is taking to ensure that the town has adequate health provision.
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Question reference: S5W-17857
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 2 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what procedure is followed in response to a request to extend the period within which an electricity generating station or overhead electricity line project must commence when it has previously been granted consent under section 36 or 37 of the Electricity Act 1989.
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Question reference: S5W-17858
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 2 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it undertakes to ensure that there is publicity and a public consultation is carried out as part of the consideration of a request to extend the period within which an electricity generating station or overhead electricity line project must commence when it has previously been granted consent under section 36 or 37 of the Electricity Act 1989.
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Question reference: S5W-17856
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 26 July 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 2 August 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how statutory requirements for environmental assessment are met for an application to extend the period within which an electricity generating station or overhead electricity line development must commence when it has previously been granted consent under section 36 or 37 of the Electricity Act 1989.