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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: S6O-01093

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 May 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 18 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government for what reason a number of written parliamentary questions have not received an answer by ministers within the required timescale.

Question reference: S6O-01078

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 May 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what lessons have been learned regarding the procurement of new ferries.

Question reference: S6W-08153

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 April 2022
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 4 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to ensure that local authorities are carrying out home visits for its Super Sponsorship Scheme, for the Homes for Ukraine scheme, fairly, proportionally and equally across Scotland.

The Scottish Government is working closely with local authorities on this work. Guidance for all local authorities supporting displaced people from Ukraine through the Scottish Super Sponsor Scheme and who match through the Homes for Ukraine Scheme has been published: Super Sponsor Scheme and Homes for Ukraine guidance for local authorities .

It is a requirement for all hosts to agree to a home visit by a local authority before a guest is placed with that host, or as soon as a local authority is made aware a person has matched individually.

Question reference: S6W-08152

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 21 April 2022
Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 3 May 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to consult hosts within its Super Sponsorship Scheme, for the Homes for Ukraine scheme, as part of its development of the scheme.

Question reference: S6T-00664

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 25 April 2022
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 26 April 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the potential impact on Scottish Government standard due diligence of reports of lost documentation related to the Ferguson Marine ferry contract.

Question reference: S6W-07427

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 31 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-06722 by Lorna Slater on 7 March 2022, what its position is on whether creating an incentive for producers to switch from using plastic packaging to using glass packaging would be a negative outcome.

Question reference: S6W-07429

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 31 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-06722 by Lorna Slater on 7 March 2022, whether it has considered any international evidence in relation to the potential impact of the inclusion of glass in a Deposit Return Scheme on the willingness of producers to switch from using glass packaging to using aluminium or plastic packaging.

We have drawn extensively on international evidence in the design for our Deposit Return Scheme (DRS). Where there has been a movement away from glass in other countries, this is usually attributable to a range of factors e.g. a movement towards increased use of refillables. Evidence suggests that where product or format switching has occurred in other countries with DRS, it is rare that this can only be attributed to DRS. As the answer to question S6W-06722 sets out, we do not consider that there will be extensive switching away from glass due to our DRS.

Question reference: S6W-07428

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 31 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-06722 by Lorna Slater on 7 March 2022, what modelling it has done regarding the likelihood of producers in the food and drink sector switching from glass packaging to plastic packaging as a result of the inclusion of glass in its Deposit Return Scheme.

Question reference: S6W-07395

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 17 March 2022
Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 24 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will clarify whether it is committed to replacing the Common Agricultural Policy with a scheme that directly pays farmers for environmental land management, including all forms of carbon sequestration.

Question reference: S6W-06427

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2022
Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 8 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what the budget underspend was in each year from 2018-19 to 2021-22; what the uplift figures have been in each of the last three years, and what the projected (a) underspend and (b) cash reserve is for the year 2022-23.

The underspend on HM Treasury Funds available for each of the three years is as follows:

2018-19 - £339m (£191m Resource, £147m Financial Transactions and £1m Capital)

2019-20 - £256m (£85m Resource, £97m Financial Transactions and £74m Capital)

2020-21 - £426m (£358m Resource, £61m Financial Transactions and £7m Capital)

This includes all planned and anticipated carry forward commitments built into the following years’ budgets.

For 2021-22 the current carry forward requirement is £511m to fulfil known and forecast 2022-23 obligations. Current forecasting is in line with this requirement but remains subject to final movements and the outturn processes. The final underspend figure for 2021-22 will be the 2022-23 Scotland Reserve opening balance.

It is unclear what is meant by funding uplifts in the question.