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.
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To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to support a town centre first approach to the development of new housing.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on which of the key recommendations it is looking to progress from the report State of The Nation: Heart Valve Disease in Scotland by Heart Valve Voice, which was released in December 2021.
To ask the Scottish Government how people with no digital or internet access can use ScotRail's half-price train ticket scheme.
To ask the Scottish Government what specific support it will provide to help people with their energy bills (a) in general and (b) for those whose residence is not in a council tax band that qualifies for the council tax rebate.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider a moratorium on onshore windfarm developments until an update to its Energy Strategy is published later in 2022.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider making funding available to (a) help train seafarers to deal with lithium-ion battery fires in electric vehicles on board ferries and (b) purchase and retrofit any required equipment to contain and extinguish such a fire.
To ask the Scottish Government how many (a) onshore and (b) offshore wind energy projects are owned by companies that are headquartered in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government what research it has (a) undertaken and (b) considered to utilise vermiculture processes to convert organic waste to a sustainable circular alternative to chemical fertiliser.
To ask the Scottish Government how much it (a) has spent on funding Discretionary Housing Payments (DHPs) in each year for which it has been responsible for doing so and (b) estimates it will spend on funding DHPs in the current financial year, all broken down by how much was in relation to (i) the removal of the spare room subsidy and (ii) other reasons, and what the (A) administrative costs for DHPs and (B) total value of DHPs made by local authorities was in each year from 2010-11 to 2021-22.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a list of any reports procured by Zero Waste Scotland since 2011 that are not published on the Zero Waste Scotland website.