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: S5F-01599
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 02 October 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 5 October 2017
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5F-01565
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 September 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 September 2017
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5F-01536
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 September 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 September 2017
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5F-01510
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 September 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 September 2017
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5F-01468
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 September 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 September 2017
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5W-10477
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 25 July 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 7 August 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made in implementing each of the recommendations of the report, Shifting the Curve, which was published by the First Minister’s Independent Advisor on Poverty and Inequality in January 2016.
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Question reference: S5W-09672
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 June 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 27 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish Employability Support Service will (a) collect and publish equality data and (b) monitor whether its services meet the needs of BME people who are long-term unemployed or at risk of becoming so.
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Question reference: S5W-09463
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 25 May 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 6 June 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the findings of the report that it commissioned from yellow book ltd, Barriers to community engagement in planning: a research study.
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Question reference: S5F-01192
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 April 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 April 2017
To ask the First Minister what action the Scottish Government will take to ensure that older people receive the free personal care payments that they are entitled to, in light of research by Age Scotland, which suggests that thousands are missing out due to delays in assessing and arranging care.
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Question reference: S5W-08271
- Asked by: Alex Rowley, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 13 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether an independent Scotland in the EU would have the current VAT exemptions that the UK has negotiated.
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