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: S5W-08886
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 April 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 5 May 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on introducing a regional model of bovine viral diarrhoea testing.
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Question reference: S5W-08628
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 25 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what recent assessment it has made of the impact of freshwater dredging.
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Question reference: S5W-08351
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 20 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether feed-in tariffs can be claimed for biomass boilers that have not been granted local authority planning permission.
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Question reference: S5W-08737
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 April 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 18 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it funds cold call advertising of boiler replacement schemes that it supports.
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Question reference: S5W-08345
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 18 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many farmers identified errors in their 2016 single application form.
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Question reference: S5W-08347
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 13 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government which projects it funds to tackle hate crime and prejudice; what criteria it uses to determine which projects to support, and what analysis it carries out of their effectiveness.
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Question reference: S5W-08011
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Mark McDonald on 28 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government when the baby box scheme will be rolled out in Dumfries and Galloway.
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Question reference: S5W-06862
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 13 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what funding Dumfries and Galloway has received from the People and Communities Fund.
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Question reference: S5W-07577
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the Post Implementation Review of the Welfare of Racing Greyhounds Regulations 2010 carried out by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, and whether it plans to legislate to protect the welfare of racing greyhounds in Scotland.
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Question reference: S5W-06870
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 6 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of ambulance provision in Kirkconnel.