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
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Question reference: S6W-06524
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 11 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 25 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the first supplementary to question S6O-00736 by Ben Macpherson on 9 February 2022, during which the minister referred to the "greater provision of renewable energy - which...has had a significant positive impact on the reliability of supply here in Scotland", whether it will set out in detail what this definition of “renewable energy” is; what the generation source is of the energy that has had a positive impact on reliability, and whether it will publish any data that (a) shows an increasing "reliability of supply", as opposed to an increasing amount of energy supplied, and (b) shows a correlation and direct "impact" of the greater provision of renewable energy, as defined, on the reliability of supply.
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Question reference: S6W-06275
- Asked by: Alexander Stewart, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 25 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether provision has been made in the new devolved disability benefits system to allow disabled people to relocate between nations of the UK and maintain their benefit eligibility.
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Question reference: S6W-06324
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 25 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-05612 by Michael Matheson on 17 January 2022, how much Scottish Water Horizons Holdings Ltd paid for the PFI company referred to; how much external bank debt funding remains, and whether Scottish Water is the only shareholder in Scottish Water Horizons Holdings Ltd.
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Question reference: S6W-06328
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 25 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-05606 by Michael Matheson on 17 January 2022, what commitment it will make to review the Water Charges Reduction Scheme, in light of the potential erosion of its value to the least affluent customers with each year that Scottish Water increases charges above the rate of inflation.
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Question reference: S6W-06326
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 25 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-05611 by Michael Matheson on 17 January 2022, whether Scottish Water expects to have undertaken all the residual work from the 2015-21 regulatory period by the end of the 2022-23 financial year, as indicated in its 2020-21 annual report.
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Question reference: S6W-06068
- Asked by: Colin Smyth, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 25 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what impact COVID-19 restrictions had on the numbers of deer culled in 2021-22.
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Question reference: S6W-06070
- Asked by: Colin Smyth, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 25 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish an updated deer management strategy to implement the recommendations in the Deer Working Group report.
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Question reference: S6W-06352
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 24 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills to the Education, Children and Young People Committee on 28 January 2022, whether it will publish all the advice that it received from Scottish Futures Trust that it used to make its “educated assumptions” on the provision of the £5 million schools/ELC ventilation fund.
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Question reference: S6W-06380
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) Equality Impact Assessment and (b) Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment it has conducted in relation to the build-to-rent sector.
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Question reference: S6W-06349
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 24 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills to the Education, Children and Young People Committee on 28 January 2022, whether it will publish the (a) health and safety and (b) scientific advice that it (i) sought and (ii) shared with local authorities on undercutting doors prior to it providing £300,000 for this purpose, as part of the £5 million schools/ELC ventilation fund.
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