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 its response is to reports that officials from the Clinical Priorities Unit told chronic pain patients that gestures such as tutting or eye rolling at a meeting of the National Advisory Committee on Chronic Pain could lead to dismissal as a volunteer patient representative and that such behaviour would be reported to ministers to obtain a decision on their continued membership of the committee.
To ask the Scottish Government what incentives it provides to encourage businesses to invest in training and retraining for their staff.
To ask the Scottish Government whether a call will be made for candidate areas for national park status.
To ask the Scottish Government what criteria will be used to assess any bids for national park status.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-03450 by Lorna Slater on 21 October 2021, whether it will provide detail of estimates of the amount of re-used materials from second-hand stores, and the (a) number of jobs and (b) economic value associated with that activity, in each year since the Revolve scheme was launched.
To ask the Scottish Government whether a proposal under section 2 of the National Parks (Scotland) Act 2000 will be made in Spring 2022.
To ask the Scottish Government what resources it will make available to producers as part of its Deposit Return Scheme to make changes to third party online web shops and introduce the takeback service.
To ask the Scottish Government whether live facial recognition will be used by (a) Police Scotland and (b) other security organisations as part of COP26 policing operations.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the number of online retailers that will be included within the scope of its Deposit Return Scheme.
To ask the Scottish Government what the first steps will be in the process of identifying potential candidate areas for national park status.