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-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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Question reference: S6W-02460
- 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, further to the answer to question S5W-32196 by Roseanna Cunningham on 30 September 2020, whether it will provide updated figures on Zero Waste Scotland audits for 2019-20, regarding (a) reductions in (i) food waste and (ii) CO2 emissions and (b) monetary savings.
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Question reference: S6W-02267
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 13 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on progress towards delivering road equivalent tariff (RET) on the Scrabster-Stromness ferry route, and what the timeframe is for implementing this.
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Question reference: S6W-02237
- Asked by: Rachael Hamilton, MSP for Ettrick, Roxburgh and Berwickshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 13 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to reform the Agri-Environment Climate Scheme (AECS), in light of the findings in the report, Farming for 1.5C: From here to 2045, and whether it plans to allocate additional funding to the scheme.
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Question reference: S6W-02377
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 20 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 13 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what communication it has had with the UK Government regarding the Subsidy Control Bill in relation to any future application of Road Equivalent Tariff (RET) fares to ferry services in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-02378
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 20 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 13 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on progress with the introduction of Road Equivalent Tariff (RET) on Dunoon-Gourock services provided by (a) CalMac Ferries and (b) Western Ferries.
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