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-18371
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 13 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what progress is being made with the Tay Cities Deal.
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Question reference: S5W-18376
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 13 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the reported reduction in the savings ratio will make it more likely that people on the intermediate income tax band will spend the 1% relief that they receive in their take-home pay from their pension payments instead of it automatically being saved in their pension pots.
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Question reference: S5W-18372
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 13 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will fund projects in the Tay City Deal that fall within areas of devolved competence.
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Question reference: S5W-18377
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 13 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to concerns that its 2018-19 income tax policy has led to a possibility that an estimated 900,000 people on the intermediate income tax band are at risk of spending a portion of their pension savings due to the 1% relief above the initial 20% being included in take-home pay as opposed to it being paid directly into their pension pots.
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Question reference: S5W-18373
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 13 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what impact the Tay Cities Deal will have on deprivation levels in Dundee.
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Question reference: S5W-18317
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 13 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what is its timetable is for extending the HPV vaccine programme to adolescent boys.
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Question reference: S5W-18318
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 13 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on running a catch-up programme for 14- to 18-year old males in conjunction with the HPV vaccine programme for adolescent boys.
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Question reference: S5W-18319
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 20 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 13 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on running an awareness campaign regarding the HPV vaccine.
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Question reference: S5O-02379
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 September 2018
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government on what date it plans to introduce its non-domestic rates bill.
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Question reference: S5W-18391
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 August 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 12 September 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-18378 by Michael Matheson on 23 August 2018, what consideration it has made of the level of cost provisioning required for such a bid.
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