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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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 4 May 2021
  6. Current session: 13 May 2021 to 20 February 2026
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Question reference: S5W-23063

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what correlation there is between property values and the supply and removal of water by Scottish Water from eligible properties.

Question reference: S5W-23176

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to answers to questions S5W-22038 and S5W-22039 by Roseanna Cunningham on 20 March 2019, how many water charge payers in each local authority area it estimates are paying more than 3% of their income on water charges, after housing costs, and how (a) West Dunbartonshire and (b) Argyll and Bute Council compares with the national average.

Question reference: S5W-23178

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much debt arising from past capital spending Scottish Water has, and how much it has repaid in each of the last 10 years.

Question reference: S5W-23184

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government, further to answers to questions S5W-22038 and S5W-22039 by Roseanna Cunningham on 20 March 2019, what data it has on water charge affordability, broken down by council tax band, and at what bands affordability issues mainly occur.

Question reference: S5W-23182

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government when the Water Industry Commission for Scotland will confirm its decision in its 2018 Decision Paper 8: Prospects for prices, that water charges will rise above the inflation rate over a transition period of up to 15 years; how the increases being considered compare with the range set out in Initial Decision Paper 2: Prospects for prices, and what the impact of these increases will be on charges by 2036-37, including the number of people that year paying more than 3% of their income on these after housing costs.

Question reference: S5W-23177

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what the debt arising from past capital spending it estimates Scottish Water will have in 2036-37.

Question reference: S5W-23179

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government how much Scottish Water has repaid in interest on the money that it has borrowed in each of the last 10 years, and to which bodies.

Question reference: S5W-23181

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government from which bodies Scottish Water borrows to finance capital spending.

Question reference: S5W-23180

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
  • Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of Scottish Water’s spending on capital investment has been financed by borrowing in each of the last 10 years.

Question reference: S5O-03270

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 May 2019
  • Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 May 2019

To ask the Scottish Government what support it will provide to help the Waverley paddle steamer return to sailing on the Clyde.