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: S6W-08647
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 10 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on travel expenses for ministers, civil servants or other staff to travel on Edinburgh’s trams network, in each year since 2014.
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Question reference: S6W-08648
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 10 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many vehicles are currently in its fleet, including its agencies, broken down by the number of (a) electric, (b) hybrid, (c) diesel and (d) petrol vehicles.
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Question reference: S6W-08588
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 7 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it has had with (a) industry and (b) local authorities regarding making data from waste, particularly for incineration, more transparent and accessible to stakeholders.
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Question reference: S6W-08584
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 7 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many of the recommendations in the report of Independent Review of the Role of Incineration in the Waste Hierarchy in Scotland it has already adopted, and how many it is planning to adopt.
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Question reference: S6W-08587
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 7 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will develop an incentive gap, that declines over time, for the amount of residual waste treatment as Scotland transitions towards a fully circular economy.
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Question reference: S6W-08589
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 7 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to help local authorities ensure that they have a solution to waste management, in light of its plans to ban all non-household biodegradable waste from entering landfill by 2025.
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Question reference: S6W-08586
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 7 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what work it has done with (a) industry and (b) local authorities to develop a strategic approach to planning and developing waste collection, reprocessing and management facilities.
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Question reference: S6W-08585
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 19 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 7 June 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to report greenhouse gas emissions from incineration separately from other energy-related emissions.
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Question reference: S6O-01199
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 June 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 June 2022
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Question reference: S6W-08650
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 May 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 31 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a list of businesses and projects which have received money from the Scottish National Investment Bank, since it was established, specifically with the aim of helping Scotland meet its net zero targets.