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-02416
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what the latest advice is for immunosuppressed people who have received two doses of a COVID-19 vaccine, and whether this group has the same level of immunity to COVID-19 as non-immunosuppressed people who have received two vaccine doses.
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Question reference: S6W-02459
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 13 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of relevant businesses (a) has access to and (b) participates in separate food waste collections.
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Question reference: S6W-02455
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 13 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on its progress towards the 2025 food waste reduction target, including a tonnage breakdown for food waste (a) arisings, (b) incinerated/landfilled and (c) prevented and, if it is not possible to provide such figures, by what date the data will be available.
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Question reference: S6W-02445
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 13 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider opening a Connecting Scotland phase of applications focused on refugees and asylum seekers, in light of previous phases having centred on certain other vulnerable groups.
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Question reference: S6W-02399
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 13 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) engagement it will have with and (b) assistance it will provide for (i) heat pump manufacturers and (ii) other related stakeholders to ensure that any of its schemes or programmes that are aimed at tackling poverty can benefit from the anticipated increase in heat pump installations.
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Question reference: S6W-02444
- Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 13 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how long the Connecting Scotland initiative is planned to operate for.
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Question reference: S6W-02418
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 13 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to address any workforce issues within NHS podiatry care.
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Question reference: S6W-02433
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 13 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many households have access to food waste collections.
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Question reference: S6W-02434
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 13 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when it first made plans for a new round of household waste compositional analysis, following the 2013-15 programme, and how (a) much money and (b) many staffing hours it allocated to this.
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Question reference: S6W-02398
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 13 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to increase consumer awareness of heat pumps, and whether it has a strategy to roll out such a programme.
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