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-05633
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 1 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason its draft Budget reduces funding to support the costs of maintenance, safe operation and renewal of the Scottish rail network from £501 million to £427 million; what aspects of maintenance, safe operation and renewal will either be reduced or not go ahead as a result of this, and what the evidential basis is for its conclusions regarding the appropriateness of such a reduction.
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Question reference: S6W-05803
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 1 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, ahead of the publication of its Heat in Buildings Strategy, whether it (a) consulted any bodies, organisations or individuals representing rural and remote communities and (b) surveyed, or consulted by other means, rural householders.
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Question reference: S6W-05804
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 1 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it made of the financial implications for rural householders of its domestic heat decarbonisation policies, which are included in its Heat in Buildings Strategy.
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Question reference: S6W-05501
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 06 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government from where specifically it will source energy that is currently generated by the Torness nuclear power station, following its closure.
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Question reference: S6W-05513
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 06 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether the current ScotRail franchise agreement requires it to run class 43 HSTs sets on its services between Edinburgh and Aberdeen; if it is not a franchise requirement, what the expectation is; how frequent these services are required to be, in terms of departures from (a) Edinburgh and (b) Aberdeen; what the breakdown of class of sets on services from (i) Aberdeen to Edinburgh and (ii) Edinburgh to Aberdeen has been since November 2021, and, in any instances since November 2021 where train sets on this route have not been class 43 HSTs, for what reason this has been the case.
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Question reference: S6W-05514
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 06 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many class 43 HSTs train sets are in the ScotRail fleet; how many of these sets were in use on 3 January 2022 on the Inter7City network, and, if any of these sets were not being used on the Inter7City network on 3 January 2022, for what reason.
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Question reference: S6W-05512
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 06 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) service levels and (b) types of train sets ScotRail is required to run between Aberdeen and the central belt under the current franchise agreement, and whether this will change following it coming under direct state control from March 2022.
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Question reference: S6W-05631
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government on what date it made the decision to reduce SEPA's budget from £43.4 million to £41.4 million in its draft Budget; what aspects of SEPA's operations it anticipates may not proceed as a result of this reduction; what its position is on whether SEPA will still be able to deliver all operations and services that it is required to following this budget reduction, and what the evidential basis is for its position.
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Question reference: S6W-05634
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 27 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government to what degree and in what ways the Scottish Green Party and the Cooperation Agreement influenced the decision to reduce funding for capital works on motorways and trunk roads from £155.7 million to £136.9 million.
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Question reference: S6W-05499
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 06 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 26 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the introduction of a ban in France on plastic packaging for most fruit and vegetables, what its response is regarding how such a ban could potentially operate in Scotland.