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-21819
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 5 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, where a core path is to be re-routed, whether the local authority is responsible for the creation or construction of a re-routed path or diversion.
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Question reference: S5W-21330
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2019
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 26 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what engagement it (a) has had and (b) plans with the private sector to maximise the commercial roll-out of broadband and enable the R100 programme to focus on the most hard to reach areas.
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Question reference: S5W-21328
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2019
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 26 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that public intervention in the R100 programme will (a) focus on the areas of market failure and (b) not impact on private investment.
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Question reference: S5W-21465
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 February 2019
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 26 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how much BT has brought forward as a proportion of the Gainshare funding for reinvestment in the Digital Scotland Superfast Broadband contracts, and what process was used by public sector partners to accept this offer.
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Question reference: S5W-21622
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 26 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether supplementary planning guidance is treated in the same manner as a Local Development Plan.
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Question reference: S5W-21623
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 26 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to end the use of supplementary planning guidance and, if so, when.
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Question reference: S5O-02922
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how it supports Men's Sheds.
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Question reference: S5W-21166
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 5 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to address the reported disparity in average broadband connection speeds between rural and urban areas.
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Question reference: S5W-21219
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 5 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how much of the money allocated in its digital connectivity budget for the last three years has occurred as a result of Gainshare.
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Question reference: S5W-21168
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 January 2019
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 5 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what specific measures will be taken to ensure that the R100 broadband scheme meets its target by 2021.
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