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-03009
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 28 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what budget it has allocated to progressing its plans to establish new National Parks in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-03007
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 27 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) consideration it (i) has given and (ii) plans to give and (b) research it has undertaken regarding the impact of onshore windfarm developments on tourism.
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Question reference: S6W-02531
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has regarding what clinical trials are taking place on the early treatment of COVID-19 using vitamins and/or drugs to help reduce the number of people requiring hospitalisation.
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Question reference: S6W-02700
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 September 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 20 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the creation of new national parks.
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Question reference: S6O-00196
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 September 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its position regarding short-term lets licensing.
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Question reference: S6W-02645
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 14 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that some local authorities do not have the capacity to consider planning applications for windfarms within the legal timescales.
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Question reference: S6W-02643
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 10 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many wind turbines, and of what generating capacity, will be required to meet its net zero targets.
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Question reference: S6W-02642
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 9 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on introducing a moratorium on windfarm development, pending the changes to the National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4).
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Question reference: S6W-02641
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 6 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what research it has commissioned on the effects of windfarm development on tourism.
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Question reference: S6O-00105
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 01 September 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to support rural health services following the end of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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