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-21761
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 1 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, where the full funding allocation requested by local authorities is not being fulfilled, which areas of the Rapid Rehousing Transition Plan it will prioritise, or whether such decisions would be at the discretion of individual councils.
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Question reference: S5O-02923
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it will publish its draft regulations for disability assistance.
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Question reference: S5O-02860
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether the processing of applications to the PVG scheme for people working in schools will change as a result of Disclosure Scotland's new IT system, and what progress has been made on this.
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Question reference: S5W-20871
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 21 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Drinkaware campaign, Drink Free Days, and whether it will engage in the charity’s monitor insights, which examine drinking behaviours and attitudes.
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Question reference: S5W-20741
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 9 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what provisions it has in place for the Motability scheme once PIP payments are devolved; whether the eligibility criteria for the scheme will remain the same, and which agency will manage it.
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Question reference: S5O-02731
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 December 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 January 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the size is of the Scottish Reserve.
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Question reference: S5W-20448
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 07 December 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 18 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to amend the Town and Country Planning (Tree Preservation Order and Trees in Conservation Areas (Scotland) Regulations 2010 to widen the definition of an "interested person" to include community councils and to require replacement planting of trees.
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Question reference: S5W-20220
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 November 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 6 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many more people would be eligible for the Young Carer Grant if it was extended to include (a) more than one young carer per household and (b) 18- to 25-year-olds in full-time education.
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Question reference: S5O-02680
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 December 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 December 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of recent figures reportedly showing that the number of doctors in training in Scotland is at a five-year low, how it plans to address GP recruitment issues.
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Question reference: S5W-19438
- Asked by: Jeremy Balfour, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 18 October 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 2 November 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had or plans to have with stakeholder groups on its approach to women who are perpetrators of domestic abuse.
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