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-06043
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 31 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 8 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when the Green Heat Finance Taskforce was created; how many people it employs, and what its annual budget is.
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Question reference: S6W-05715
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 31 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to tackle incidents of hare coursing across the Mid Scotland and Fife region.
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Question reference: S6W-05684
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 28 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the reserves that would be required for an independent Scottish central bank.
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Question reference: S6W-05714
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 26 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to review sentences given to people found guilty of hare coursing under the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002.
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Question reference: S6W-05254
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 25 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has adopted, as part of its plans for an independent Scotland, the terms of the motion reportedly passed at the SNP conference 2021 to establish a Scottish Central Bank and a new Scottish currency as soon as possible in an independent Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-05256
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 25 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the reported policy of the Scottish Green Party that work on a new Scottish currency should start straight after any vote to agree to an independent Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-05716
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 17 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 24 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many instances of (a) poaching and (b) coursing were recorded in (i) the Forth Valley, (ii) Fife and (iii) Perth and Kinross, in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S6O-00686
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 January 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when it last met Stirling Council and what was discussed.
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Question reference: S6W-05253
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 11 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it remains committed, in an independent Scotland, to retaining the pound sterling within a formal monetary union with the rest of the UK unless certain tests are met, and, if so, whether it will provide a breakdown of what those economic tests are.
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Question reference: S6W-05255
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 11 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, under its plans for an independent Scotland, whether it will provide a detailed timetable for establishing a Scottish Central Bank and a new Scottish currency.