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
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Question reference: S5W-34084
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, whether it will publish the assumptions and calculations that give rise to the minimum annual revenue expectation of £1,392 million in 2026-27, and, using the modelling assumptions for the strategic review of charges, what minimum charge would be necessary to generate this level of income.
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Question reference: S5W-34091
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much Scottish Water, as the owners of Business Stream, has had to make available to it to meet trading challenges during the pandemic; under what terms, and whether any assistance with liquidity is in respect of Business Stream’s trading activities in England.
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Question reference: S5W-34090
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, whether the interpretation of the duty to set charge caps at the lowest overall reasonable cost interprets cost as being of investment, or to customers.
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Question reference: S5W-34085
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, what the actual split between domestic and business customers of Scottish Water’s income has been in each of the last 10 years.
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Question reference: S5W-34088
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, whether the general function it has of promoting the interests of persons who might become connected to Scottish Water’s services, is a function that has been given subsequent to the final determination of the 2015-21 period, or existed when that and earlier determinations were made.
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Question reference: S5W-34116
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the terms of any loan and repayment requirements given to Business Stream by its parent company, Scottish Water, in respect of support through difficult trading arrangements arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Question reference: S5W-34093
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-30856 by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 August 2020 and the publication of the final determination of water charges by the Water Industry Commission, how the figure of £1.5 million quoted as a benefit from international work was calculated.
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Question reference: S5W-34086
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, whether there is any flexibility in the expectation of the level of income to be raised in 2026-27, and whether any expectation is a formal part of the regulatory settlement for the period.
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Question reference: S5W-34096
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-31954 by Roseanna Cunningham on 30 October 2020, whether Scottish business customers are insulated from the costs of any trading losses incurred by Business Stream from its trading activities in England.
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Question reference: S5W-34089
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, where customers can find the performance measures that Scottish Water is expected to meet over the 2021-27 period that have been previously set out in a final determination.
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