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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-11121

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government when in 2022 the medium-term solution for the A83 Rest and Be Thankful will be selected and published.

Question reference: S6W-11118

Asked by: Paul Sweeney, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Thursday, 22 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how much has been allocated to local authorities from the £74 million Community Bus Fund since 2021, and how much remains in the fund to be distributed by the end of the current parliamentary session.

The recent Resource Spending Review allocated £46 million to the Community Bus fund for the remainder of this parliament, with a further £30 million allocated in the Capital Spending Review. These financial envelopes are intended to guide financial planning and reform across the public sector, in anticipation of future Scottish budget setting processes. Work is ongoing with local authorities and COSLA to determine how best to allocate this funding.

Question reference: S6W-11075

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 5 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how Highlands and Islands Enterprise accounts for HM Treasury’s Green Book when proposing to award a loan or grant to a company.

Question reference: S6W-11076

Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 5 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether Highlands and Islands Enterprise has a duty to show evidence of market failure of a company before intervening to award a loan or grant to it.

Question reference: S6W-11048

Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 September 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what discussions regarding public ferry contracts it has had with private operators in Scotland since 1 October 2016, and when the last such meeting took place.

Question reference: S6W-11042

Asked by: Richard Leonard, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 September 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 5 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, with reference to the further stakeholder engagement referred to on page 6 of the Ferry Services Procurement Policy, Review Interim Report - Emerging Findings, published on 20 December 2017, how many (a) passengers, (b) businesses and (c) local communities on the Clyde and Hebrides ferry network were consulted by Transport Scotland as part of that work.

Question reference: S6W-11317

Current Status: Withdrawn

Question reference: S6W-10806

Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
Date lodged: Friday, 02 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 4 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, in light of energy price rises, what additional financial support is available for people who require medical machines in their homes.

Management of reimbursement for energy costs associated with medical machines in individuals homes are decisions made by NHS Boards. The Scottish Government continues to work with NHS Boards to address financial pressures across the healthcare system, including the increase in energy costs. In May 2022, we published our Resource Spending Review that set out investment of £73 billion in health and social care to 2026-27.

The Scottish Government will also use the Emergency Budget Review to increase the Fuel Insecurity Fund to £20 million in 2022-23. The Fuel Insecurity Fund is aimed at helping people who are at risk of self-rationing their energy use, or self-disconnecting entirely because they cannot afford their energy bills.

Question reference: S6W-10820

Asked by: Monica Lennon, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 02 September 2022
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 4 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it will (a) commit to freezing rail fares in 2023 in order to help commuters with the cost of living and (b) abolish peak-time fares.

As announced in the Programme for Government on 6 September, the Scottish government made a commitment that ScotRail fares will not increase before March 2023. The Scottish Government is clearly aware that any RPI linked fares rise would hit hard-pressed passengers in the pocket at a time when the cost of living crisis is at its height, and potentially turn them away from rail at a time when we should be encouraging them back.

The Scottish government supports calls for simplification of the current rail fares system and we will be exploring what we might be able to do with the powers the Scottish Government has to make fares easier for all, including through the Fair Fares Review.

Question reference: S6W-10693

Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2022
Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 4 October 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what share of the £500 million long-term investment to deliver targeted bus priority measures on local and trunk roads, announced as part of its response to the climate emergency, has been allocated to the Bus Partnership Fund.