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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: S5W-23254
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 May 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 23 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the passenger numbers have been for each airport in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S5O-03301
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 May 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 May 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when it last met COSLA and what was discussed.
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Question reference: S5W-23062
- 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, in light of its paper, Investing in and paying for your water services from 2021, Summary of Responses, recording 107 responses to the consultation, what its response is to concerns that this is an inadequate level of response to determine the charging principles for 2021-27.
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Question reference: S5W-23064
- 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 for what reason owner-occupiers in multi-storey properties reportedly pay more for the removal of the same volume of roof water as owners of single-storey ground properties with similar carbon footprints.
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Question reference: S5W-23067
- 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 its position is on asking Scottish Water to advise customers of forthcoming or ongoing consultations by enclosing information about these to water bills, in light of its paper, Investing in and paying for your water services from 2021, Summary of Responses, recording 107 responses only to that consultation, 87 of which were from members of the public.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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