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-16234
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 May 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 21 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of what expenditure items there were in excess of £500,000 in each area of (a) operating and (b) management expenditure as set out in the Scottish Enterprise Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 March 2017.
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Question reference: S5W-16346
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 May 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 18 May 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the findings of the Review of the Office and Functions of the Scottish Road Works Commissioner, what action it has taken to (a) widen the commissioner’s scope to issue directions to contractors and apply penalties for non-compliance, (b) give the commissioner the power to report repeat or serious offenders to the ministers, and publicise this action and (c) introduce a considerate contractor scheme.
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Question reference: S5W-15762
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 27 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the targets in its Five Year Strategy for Engagement between Scotland and the People’s Republic of China in 2012, what progress it has made on (a) Target 1.1 to double the number of Scottish companies, based on 2010 levels, supported to access Chinese markets by 2017, (b) Target 1.2 to increase direct exports to China above the Scottish Government's export target of 50% by 2017 and to exceed this for China, based on 2010 export levels, and (c) Target 1.3 to double the number of major Chinese investors with a presence in Scotland by 2017, based on 2012 levels.
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Question reference: S5W-16090
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 19 April 2018
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 27 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-14837 by Keith Brown on 21 March 2018, how many people have been part of the GlobalScot network in each year since 2007.
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Question reference: S5W-15920
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 April 2018
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 25 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what progress has been made toward meeting the target in its strategy for engagement with China to double the number of teachers of Mandarin in local authority schools.
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Question reference: S5W-15925
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 April 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 25 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what the outcome was of the £500,000 College Innovation Fund pilot, and whether it will provide a breakdown of where the funding was allocated.
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Question reference: S5W-15724
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 20 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement by the Cabinet Secretary for Economy, Jobs and Fair Work on 22 March 2018 (Official Report, c. 44), for what reasons there were delays to the timing of public utility diversions on the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route building project, and who was responsible for those delays.
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Question reference: S5W-15830
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 April 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 18 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government when it expects the construction of Doune Health Centre to be completed and by what date it expects the facility to be operational.
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Question reference: S5W-15725
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 17 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the geographical source of inward investment in Scotland from (a) within and (b) outwith the UK in each of the last five years, also broken down by (i) percentage, (ii) value and (iii) number of projects.
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Question reference: S5W-15819
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 April 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 17 April 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-15325 by Derek Mackay on 28 March 2018, whether it will provide a breakdown of the origins of the £30.4 million dispersed by the Scottish Growth Scheme and how much of this was in the form of (a) equity and (b) loans and guarantees.
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