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-03775
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 4 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the funding allocated to the Low Carbon Infrastructure Transition Programme will be sufficient to meet its ambitions for the deployment of heat networks.
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Question reference: S6W-03950
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 4 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has considered the use of renewable liquid fuel alternatives, such as hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO), as a solution when replacing gas boilers, and, if so, whether it plans to provide incentives to homeowners who make such a change.
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Question reference: S6W-03776
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 4 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of air source heat pumps reportedly running at significantly cooler temperatures than gas boilers, what it recommends (a) older and (b) all homeowners do to maintain their heating at a gas boiler temperature level.
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Question reference: S6W-03772
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 4 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it plans to take to ensure that the contents of its Heat in Buildings Strategy do not disproportionately impact remote and rural communities.
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Question reference: S6W-03771
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 4 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what funding or financial support it plans to put in place to support homeowners and landlords to achieve the required targets set out in its Heat in Buildings Strategy.
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Question reference: S6W-03777
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 4 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the statement on page 47 of its draft Heat in Buildings Strategy that, during 2021-22, it will conduct research to "understand the cost effectiveness of thermal, electrical storage and rooftop solar PV to support households to reduce bills", what progress it has made on that research.
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Question reference: S6W-03773
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 4 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding its Heat in Buildings Strategy, where it anticipates the £31 billion difference, between the £33 billion cost of the project and its £1.8 billion contribution, will come from.
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Question reference: S6W-03502
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 3 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S6W-02357 and S6W-03041 by Graeme Dey on 13 September and 1 October 2021 respectively, whether it will provide the information requested and confirm whether fully electrifying the East Coast Main Line between Edinburgh Haymarket and Aberdeen (a) is or (b) is not required for it to achieve its ambition to decarbonise Scotland's Railway; for what reason it did not provide this information in its previous two responses, and, if it does not know the answer at this stage, whether it will confirm that.
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Question reference: S6W-03687
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 2 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to introduce an initiative similar to the Heat Network Efficiency Scheme Demonstrator that has been introduced by UK Government and, if so, by what date.
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Question reference: S6W-03439
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 October 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 2 November 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comment by the Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands during his ministerial statement on 11 February 2021 that a "hydrogen action plan...is due for publication in 2021", by what date in 2021 it plans to publish this.
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