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-29940
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 1 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) local authorities and (b) other public sector organisations generating power must sell that power to the Scottish Government or the appointed contractor under Scotland's national electricity supply framework, or whether they are free to find the best price for their power in the open market and remain part of the wider portfolio of national procurement arrangements.
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Question reference: S6W-29945
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 1 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether local authorities are able to procure energy from local community-owned energy providers within Scotland's national electricity supply framework arrangements.
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Question reference: S6W-29946
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 1 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the allocation of funds from the Just Transition Fund in each year since 2021-22, including 2024-25 to date.
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Question reference: S6W-29950
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 1 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with the UK Government regarding the effectiveness of the ScotWind process to increase employment in offshore supply chain jobs in Scotland over the next decade.
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Question reference: S6W-29943
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 1 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether its policy on the procurement of power for the public sector (a) incentivises, (b) facilitates, (c) inhibits and (d) discriminates against community-owned energy providers and public bodies taking self-owned power generating initiatives.
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Question reference: S6W-29936
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 1 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how much power within Scotland's national electricity supply framework arrangements is currently procured from community-owned energy providers.
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Question reference: S6W-29937
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 1 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether local authorities are required to participate in Scotland's national electricity supply framework arrangements.
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Question reference: S6W-29947
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 1 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will list the recipients of payments made through the Just Transition Fund to develop a digital offshore training passport.
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Question reference: S6W-29953
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 1 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-28126 by Jenni Minto on 26 June 2024, when it anticipates that the Review of NHS Hyperbaric Medicine Services in Scotland will conclude, and what steps it has taken to ensure that commercial divers have been included in the review.
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Question reference: S6W-29933
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 1 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what monitoring it has undertaken of the extent and range of community owned renewables projects on land owned by public sector agencies.
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