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-05402
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much the implementation of its proposed regulations for short-term lets is expected to cost local authorities.
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Question reference: S6W-05367
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 21 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) (i) noise and (ii) air pollution and (b) environmental and health risks to communities near airports will be addressed in its aviation strategy.
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Question reference: S6W-05412
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it did not remove bed and breakfasts from regulations for short-term lets when these were introduced.
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Question reference: S6W-05839
- Asked by: Gordon MacDonald, MSP for Edinburgh Pentlands, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 January 2022
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Humza Yousaf on 21 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take at a national level, following the publication of the British Academy of Audiology report on NHS Lothian's Paediatric Audiology Services.
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Question reference: S6W-05589
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 21 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will simplify rail ticketing for end-to-end journeys under the new ScotRail operator and, if so, what steps it will take to achieve this.
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Question reference: S6W-05576
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 21 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the reported comments by the Minister for Transport in September 2021 regarding the forthcoming launch of its scheme for free bus travel for under 22s, whether it has developed a more robust system of estimating usage and uptake, or whether it is still relying on "guesstimates"; if it does have any more robust estimates, whether it plans to publish these; whether it has undertaken any analysis of whether providing such free bus travel will result in fare rises for other passengers, since this issue was raised during the meeting of the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee on 28 September 2021, and, if so, whether it will publish this analysis.
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Question reference: S6W-05630
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 21 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what impact it expects its decision to cut funding for the Travel Strategy and Innovation stream from £39.9 million to £21.6 million in the draft Budget 2022-23 will have on deliverables under that stream.
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Question reference: S6W-05364
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 21 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government by what date it plans to reduce the number of miles travelled by car by 20%.
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Question reference: S6W-05413
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many meetings its ministers have had with bed and breakfast operators regarding plans to regulate their sector alongside short-term lets.
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Question reference: S6W-05401
- Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 December 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 21 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether there will be any penalties for local authorities that fail to enforce planned regulations on short-term lets, and, if so, what these penalties will be.
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