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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: S4W-01718

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what support it gives to attract research and development investment.

Question reference: S4W-01739

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when the Scottish Futures Trust will publish plans for a national financing model for renewable heat schemes.

Question reference: S4W-01719

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how the Scottish Energy Laboratory attracts foreign companies.

Question reference: S4W-01737

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will develop a self-financing funding scheme for community renewables.

Question reference: S4W-01716

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much annual investment the Scottish Energy Laboratory needs to co-ordinate and promote energy research and development.

Question reference: S4W-01715

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how much investment the Scottish Energy Laboratory has attracted since it was launched.

Question reference: S4W-01705

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 8 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made since 2007 in reducing carbon emissions.

Information on progress toward reducing carbon emissions arising from operations on the Scottish Government estate is detailed in the Scottish Government’s Environmental Performance Annual Report for 2008-09; copies are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 50874).

Information in respect of progress during 2009-10 is currently being collated for publication later this year.

Question reference: S4W-01706

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 4 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to reach its proposed interim target of 42% emissions reduction by 2020.

Scottish ministers set out their policies and proposals for meeting annual emissions reduction targets for 2010-22, including the interim target of 42% by 2020, in the Report on Proposals and Policies, a statutory requirement of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009. Low Carbon Scotland: Meeting the Emissions Reduction Targets 2010-2022 was laid in draft in Parliament on 17 November 2010, and laid in its final form in Parliament on 14 March 2011.

Question reference: S4W-01076

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 27 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many central heating systems it estimates will be installed under the Energy Assistance Package scheme over the next five years, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S4W-01206

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 24 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 22 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when will it appoint a chair to the Scottish Fuel Poverty Forum.