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-23687
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 21 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-19954 by Patrick Harvie on 9 August 2023, whether it will provide a breakdown of the data included in the table by local authority area.
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Question reference: S6W-23683
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 21 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-22666 by Patrick Harvie on 16 November 2023, what economic modelling has been completed to understand the ability of the current supply chain for heat pump maintenance to meet future demand.
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Question reference: S6W-23656
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 21 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-22629 by Patrick Harvie on 16 November 2023, what criteria it uses to assess whether a household is "able to consider installing a heat pump".
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Question reference: S6W-23576
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6O-02743 by Neil Gray on 16 November 2023, what consideration it has given to the role of the education system and associated extracurricular activities in its work to mitigate population trends of levels of inactivity, in order to make a targeted, early intervention for young people.
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Question reference: S6W-23584
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 13 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it defines the term "just transition" in the context of rural communities.
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Question reference: S6W-23583
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 13 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it defines the term "just transition" in the context of skills development.
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Question reference: S6W-23582
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 13 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it defines the term "just transition" in the context of urban communities.
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Question reference: S6W-23433
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 30 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 13 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what support is available to local authority planning teams for continuing professional development (CPD) and training in new technologies, such as renewables.
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Question reference: S6W-23207
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 11 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a list of the policy papers that it has published with an associated easy read version since January 2022.
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Question reference: S6O-02890
- Asked by: Brian Whittle, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 December 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that rural populations have convenient and appropriate access to care homes.
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