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 the (a) original budget and (b) actual cost was for each of the Cycle One flood defence schemes that has been completed.
To ask the Scottish Government what the original budget was for each Cycle One flood defence scheme that has not yet not yet been started.
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to increase sentencing for people who commit arson and cause damage to farms and rural communities.
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To ask the Scottish Government how many day services for people who have a learning disability are currently open, and how many hours of service they are delivering as a percentage of commissioned delivery.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of (a) any potential benefits of introducing a digital deposit return scheme, through which consumers could recycle drinks containers via kerbside collections using unique barcodes to reclaim deposits, and (b) the potential for incorporating a digital element into existing proposals for its Deposit Return Scheme.
To ask the Scottish Government which other countries its ministers or officials visited between December 2019 and March 2022 in order to see first-hand how publicly-owned railways operate, and whether the results of these visits will be published.
To ask the Scottish Government what studies or analysis it undertook of publicly-owned railways in other countries between December 2019 and March 2022, and whether the results of these will be published.
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on removing the Abellio logo and name from livery, documentation and other parts of the train and rail infrastructure.
To ask the Scottish Government what funding will be available for new Cycle Two flood defence schemes, in light of any Cycle One budget overruns.
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish its new Global Affairs Framework to guide Scotland’s international engagement.