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-07228
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 16 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-02382 by Keith Brown on 21 September 2016, whether it will provide an update on how much of the funding will be in the form of (a) loans and (b) guarantees, and by what date the funds will be available.
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Question reference: S5W-07820
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Annabelle Ewing on 15 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many accidental house fires there have been in each of the last five years in the Mid Scotland and Fife region; how many were caused by electricity, and what steps it is taking to reduce the number of such fires.
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Question reference: S5W-07790
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 06 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 15 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what the annual default rate is of businesses receiving a loan or guarantee under the Scottish Growth Scheme, and how much it expects it will pay out each year because of defaults.
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Question reference: S5W-07555
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 9 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how it will finance the (a) loans, (b) guarantees, (c) disbursements and (d) other forms of investment arising from the Scottish Growth Scheme; what provisions it has made in the 2017-18 budget to pay for this; how much will be drawn from the enterprise budget towards it, and which of its agencies will oversee the management of the payments.
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Question reference: S5W-07561
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 8 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how much has been generated from business rates in each of the last 10 years.
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Question reference: S5W-07562
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 8 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government on what date it received the draft commercial property values from the assessors.
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Question reference: S5W-06898
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 7 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-06256 by Derek Mackay on 31 January 2017, how much tax revenue it expects will be generated from whisky distilleries by the large business supplement in 2017-18.
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Question reference: S5W-06895
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 06 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 7 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the reasons that it revised its financial projections for 2017-18 from those set out in the Draft Budget, and on what date the Cabinet Secretary for Finance and Constitution was advised of the revision.
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Question reference: S5W-07229
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 6 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government from which part of its budget will funding for the Scottish Growth Scheme be allocated.
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Question reference: S5O-00692
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 February 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it is making with the Scottish Growth Scheme.