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-01392
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 6 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on adopting a so-called surrender provision for liquor licences, similar to that in Northern Ireland, to require a public-house or off-sales licence to be surrendered to the court before a licence for a new business can be granted, and what other ways of limiting alcohol availability are being considered, in light of evidence suggesting that availability drives alcohol consumption and that the number of licences in Scotland has continued to increase year on year.
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Question reference: S6W-01648
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 4 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many windfarms are (a) publicly and (b) privately owned; whether it will list the names of the owners of each wind farm, and what financial support it has provided in each of the last 14 years for the (i) private sector, (ii) public sector and (iii) community development of windfarms.
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Question reference: S6W-01647
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by George Adam on 4 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, what its response is to reports that hundreds of meetings between lobbyists and ministers were not captured by the lobbying register; for what reason any such meetings were not captured by the register, and what its position is on whether changes to the register are required.
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Question reference: S6W-00300
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 29 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with Scottish Enterprise regarding its framework for ethical leadership on global issues and the specific implications that this has for the choice of international trading partners for any firms in receipt of funding from the agency that sell arms.
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Question reference: S6W-00298
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 29 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it takes to ensure that any firms exporting overseas, which receive funding through Scottish Enterprise, conduct business in a way that is compatible with its framework for ethical international policy.
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Question reference: S6W-00299
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 29 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to ensuring that any Scotland-based firms that sell arms and receive funding through Scottish Enterprise are working within its framework to provide ethical leadership on global issues.
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Question reference: S6W-01357
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 28 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it gave, as part of its national strategy to tackle social isolation and loneliness, to the hazard to addiction recovery of loneliness and social isolation.
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Question reference: S6W-01393
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 26 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-36073 by Mairi Gougeon on 24 March 2021, what plans it has to ensure that it is a statutory requirement that alcohol labels include (a) the Chief Medical Officer's 14 units weekly low-risk drinking guidelines, (b) health warnings and (c) ingredients, should the forthcoming UK Government consultation fail to address all of these elements.
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Question reference: S6W-01395
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 July 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 16 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-00041 by Mairi Gougeon on 24 May 2021, what progress has been made on bringing an end to caged-animal farming, following reports that the EU is working on legislation to phase out the practice by 2027.
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Question reference: S6W-00818
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 15 July 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made with reviewing funding arrangements and specifically bursaries for student paramedics.