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-20471
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 5 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government which buildings in (a) the Falkirk area and (b) Scotland have been identified as having issues with dangerous cladding, and when work on these buildings will be undertaken and any potential danger addressed and/or cladding removed.
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Question reference: S6W-20470
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 August 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Paul McLennan on 5 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much it received from the UK Government in relation to cladding issues following the Grenfell Tower fire; how much of this has been spent on removing dangerous cladding, and where this was.
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Question reference: S6O-02459
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 August 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 September 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how the investment announced in the 2023-24 Programme for Government will contribute towards a move to a wellbeing economy in the Central Scotland region.
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Question reference: S6W-20168
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 18 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much (a) it and (b) NHS Scotland has spent on treating nicotine addiction in children and young people in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S6W-20167
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 14 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many children and young people it estimates currently have a nicotine addiction as a result of using (a) nicotine vapour products and (b) tobacco.
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Question reference: S6W-20166
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 14 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what support is available for children and young people with a nicotine addiction caused by using (a) nicotine vapour products and (b) tobacco.
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Question reference: S6W-19901
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 2 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it expects Scotland's Green Freeports to meet the requirement to have positive effects for biodiversity, and what types of measures are expected to be brought forward to this end.
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Question reference: S6W-19902
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 11 July 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 2 August 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S6W-15384 and S6W-15385 by John Swinney on 7 March 2023, now that six months have passed since the winning bids were announced for Scotland's Green Freeports, whether it can provide an update on what the timescale is for when maps showing the Green Freeport designation areas will be made publicly available, including the associated outer 45km limit boundary, in order to indicate any legally protected sites for nature that fall within the Green Freeport boundaries, in light of such maps already being available for England's Freeports, and of reports that applicants were required to submit maps showing the designation area as part of the bidding process in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-19499
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 June 2023
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Lorna Slater on 28 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the publication of the Zero Waste Scotland report on the environmental impacts of single-use vapes.
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Question reference: S6W-16890
- Asked by: Gillian Mackay, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 06 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 5 June 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to confirm its timeline for the introduction of the proposed Public Health (Restriction of Promotions) Bill.