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-14838
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 15 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its strategy is for increasing trade with (a) India, (b) Japan and (c) the United States.
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Question reference: S5W-14526
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 6 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-12875 by Keith Brown on 30 November 2017, on what date the innovation and investment hub in Berlin was fully operational; when a business plan and objectives were formalised, and whether it will provide the address of the hub.
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Question reference: S5W-14433
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 6 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many trade shows Scottish Development International has organised in each of the last five years, broken down by location.
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Question reference: S5W-14431
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 5 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what the business case is for the closure of the Scottish Loan Fund.
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Question reference: S5W-14333
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 1 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of figures in its publication, Exports Statistics Scotland 2016, whether it will provide an estimated breakdown of the £15 million fall in real estate activities exports to the rest of the UK.
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Question reference: S5W-14332
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 28 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of figures in its publication, Exports Statistics Scotland 2016, whether it will provide an estimated breakdown of the £165 million fall in financial and insurance activities exports to the rest of the UK.
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Question reference: S5W-14331
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 28 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of figures in its publication, Exports Statistics Scotland 2016, for what reason there was a £440 million fall in the value of exports to the EU between 2011 and 2016.
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Question reference: S5W-14548
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 28 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with NHS Fife regarding the reported difficulties in recruiting community paediatricians to enable diagnostic waiting times for children and adults with autism to improve.
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Question reference: S5W-14524
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 28 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether the proposed Scottish National Investment Bank will comply with international regulatory frameworks for banks including the Basel III standards for the regulation, supervision and risk management of banks.
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Question reference: S5W-14705
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Kezia Dugdale on 28 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what consideration it has given to the installation of a changing places toilet on the parliamentary estate.
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