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: S6W-07207
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 17 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to publish its report in response to the recent public consultation on legal services regulation reform.
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Question reference: S6W-07070
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 17 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when it first became aware of potential issues with the dual-fuel engines ordered from the Finnish company, Wärtsilä, for the delivery of two ferries for the CalMac fleet.
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Question reference: S6W-06997
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 17 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Ferguson Marine confirmation that “at least 400 cables will need to be addressed with the worst case 939 cables” on MV Glen Sannox, how much it estimates each scenario will cost to remedy.
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Question reference: S6W-07021
- Asked by: Michael Marra, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 17 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what use has been made by the Russian Government or Russian-owned businesses of Prestwick Airport and any other Scottish Government-owned infrastructure during the last five years.
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Question reference: S6W-06993
- Asked by: Graham Simpson, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when the Transport Scotland Fair Fares review will be published in full.
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Question reference: S6W-07071
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 17 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether the two dual-fuel engines ordered by Ferguson Marine for the delivery of two ferries for the CalMac fleet are fit for purpose.
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Question reference: S6W-07033
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 17 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what greenhouse gas emissions changes it estimates there would be from converting Scotland’s energy-from-waste plants to (a) combined heat and power systems and (b) carbon capture and storage systems, and when it anticipates any such changes will occur.
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Question reference: S6W-07085
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 17 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to stimulate demand for competition between broadband and fibre infrastructure providers in local authority areas where there are only single operators.
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Question reference: S6W-07072
- Asked by: Dean Lockhart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 17 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what the estimated cost is of public money for the two dual-fuel engines ordered by Ferguson Marine for the delivery of two ferries for the CalMac fleet.
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Question reference: S6W-06955
- Asked by: Pauline McNeill, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 11 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 17 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has a strategy to increase the number of retained fire and rescue service personnel.
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