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: S5O-03755
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 November 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the progress of the Referendums (Scotland) Bill.
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Question reference: S5W-25976
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 6 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will raise with Dundee City Council reports that a restructuring of swimming lessons run by Leisure and Culture Dundee could result in a 45% reduction in the number of lessons on offer in the city, with lessons reduced from seven to four days a week at Lochee pool.
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Question reference: S5W-26017
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 28 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 6 November 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the findings in the Office for National Statistics report, Personal well-being in the UK: April 2018 to March 2019, which records 15.3% and 9.8% increases respectively in levels of anxiety over the last year among people in Angus and Dundee, and what its position is on whether the performance of NHS Tayside might have contributed to this.
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Question reference: S5O-03668
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 10 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the delayed implementation of the ban on sending biodegradable municipal waste to landfill, how it plans to reduce landfill use in the north east.
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Question reference: S5O-03614
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what cost benefit analysis has been undertaken on building the Dundee Northern Relief Road since the fourth Strategic Transport Projects Review was published.
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Question reference: S5W-24962
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 August 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 19 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many Tayside partnerships have been developed through Fair Start Scotland since its inception, and what action it will take to encourage future bidders.
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Question reference: S5W-25137
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 19 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Scottish Retail Consortium’s call for a timetabled plan to lower the business rates burden, as set out in its submission on the 2020-21 budget.
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Question reference: S5W-25138
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 19 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will reduce the Large Business Supplement by April 2020, as recommended by the Barclay review in 2017.
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Question reference: S5W-25136
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 19 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Scottish Retail Consortium’s call for a freeze in the headline poundage rate, as set out in its submission on the 2020-21 budget.
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Question reference: S5W-25135
- Asked by: Bill Bowman, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 19 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how much additional tax revenue from business rates will be generated in 2020-21 from the proposed CPI-linked increase in the poundage rate, broken down by sector.