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
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Question reference: S6W-19689
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 27 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the recommendation in the Scottish Police Federation's 2019 Deep Dive Interim Report, whether the Scottish Police Authority ever referred itself to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal Service to cause an investigation into whether it breached the provisions of the Housing (Scotland) Act 2006.
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Question reference: S6W-19706
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 27 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its response to Freedom of Information request FOI/202300359656, what action it will take to expedite the connection of premises in the Na h-Eileanan an Iar constituency to superfast broadband via the R100 scheme.
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Question reference: S6W-19708
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 27 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what action the (a) Scottish Police Authority and (b) Chief Constable took in light of the recommendation in the Scottish Police Federation’s 2019 Deep Dive Interim Report that "custody operations cease immediately at Oban and an alternative custody suite utilised".
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Question reference: S6W-19710
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 27 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what action the (a) Scottish Police Authority and (b) Chief Constable took in light of the recommendation in the Scottish Police Federation’s 2019 Deep Dive Interim Report that "Lochgilphead Police Station (including the custody facility) be closed forthwith [as] it does not provide a safe working environment".
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Question reference: S6W-19705
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 27 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its response to Freedom of Information request FOI/202300359656, how many premises in the Na h-Eileanan an Iar constituency are eligible to be connected to superfast broadband via the R100 scheme.
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Question reference: S6W-20171
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 26 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-12786 by Neil Gray on 12 December 2022, whether it will provide an update on the number of sites that are managed by Historic Environment Scotland that were (a) open and (b) closed in 2022-23.
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Question reference: S6W-19730
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 24 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what meetings it has had with Scotia Arts since May 2021, and what the agreed outcomes were of any such meetings.
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Question reference: S6W-19690
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 24 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-19247 by Fiona Hyslop on 27 June 2023, how many ChargePoint Scotland public electric vehicle charging points there are per square kilometre in Scotland, broken down by local authority area, and how these figures compare with the rest of the UK.
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Question reference: S6W-19694
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 21 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-15176 by Lorna Slater on 16 March 2023, what further measures it is considering implementing that are similar to the UK Government’s Environmental Improvement Plan 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-19909
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 19 July 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much Barnett consequential funding it expects to receive as a result of the announcement by the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport to expand Arts Council England’s Supporting Grassroots Music Fund by £5 million over the next two years, and what its response is to calls to similarly ring-fence any such funding for grassroots music venues in Scotland.
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