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-06195
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 23 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of discontinuing 3G networks in rural areas, in light of reports that Vodafone has announced plans to switch off its ageing UK 3G network by the end of 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-06194
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 23 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the levels of stocks of smoke alarms available to people seeking to install battery-operated alarms in line with the new legislation on interlinked fire alarms.
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Question reference: S6W-06315
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 23 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what support it is providing to communities in LOT 1 of its R100 broadband programme, in light of reports that, due to high interest in Openreach's Fibre Community Partnership programme, the company has had to temporarily pause new registrations while focussing on existing requests.
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Question reference: S6W-06115
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 18 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action has been taken to assess and obtain technology for gathering evidence to tackle perpetrators of gear conflict, as recommended in the Report of the Task Force on Gear Conflict, in December 2015.
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Question reference: S6W-06114
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 18 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what procedure should be followed by an individual who considers that they have been a victim of “gear conflict”, of the type “Other Shellfish Pots/ Creels + Other Shellfish Pots/ Creels”, and what should that individual expect as a result of following that procedure.
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Question reference: S6W-06117
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 18 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many incidents of “gear conflict”, of the type “Other Shellfish Pots/ Creels + Other Shellfish Pots/ Creels”, have led to prosecution, broken down by the number of convictions, in each of the last seven years since this offence was identified as a priority in the Report of the Task Force on Gear Conflict, December 2015.
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Question reference: S6W-06116
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 18 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many instances of targeted surveillance have been undertaken in areas where there is historically known to be gear conflict, since this was recommended in the Report of the Task Force on Gear Conflict, in December 2015, and what the results were of any such surveillance.
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Question reference: S6W-06131
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 17 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-05688 by Maree Todd on 26 January 2022, whether the Maternity and Children’s Quality Improvement Collaborative (MCQIC) will produce a report on the improvement of the understanding of the variation in caesarean section rates in Scotland, and, if so, when this report will be published.
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Question reference: S6W-06094
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 17 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will conduct a review of wayleave widths following Storm Arwen.
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Question reference: S6W-06171
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to open a long COVID clinic in the north and north east of Scotland.
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