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.
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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To ask the Scottish Government Government whether it will provide public performance measure and other key figures for train delays and cancellations on the Milngavie to Westerton and Dalmuir route, for the last year.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason Cancellations and Significant Lateness is a regulated measure of rail performance everywhere in the UK apart from Scotland, and how those figures would differ from public performance measures.
To ask the Scottish Government whether the planning system encourages the use of alternatives to pylons, and how it works to mitigate their visual impact, especially in areas of natural beauty, such as Bennachie.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the reported downturn in the oil and gas sector, what its position is on introducing rates relief for businesses in (a) Aberdeen and (b) North East Scotland to mitigate the proposed increase in business rates.
To ask the Scottish Government how the proposed increase in business rates compares with each of the other revaluations since 1999.
To ask the Scottish Government how much the proposed increase in business rates will raise (a) nationally and (b) in North East Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on delaying the proposed increases on business rates.
To ask the Scottish Government who is responsible for (a) measuring, (b) monitoring, (c) publishing and (d) improving public performance measures on ScotRail routes.
To ask the Scottish Government when it will announce its plans on how and when it will set up an independent commission on the future of agriculture and rural development and to outline what its remit will entail.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports that many rail operators, bulletin boards and websites continue to report trains as "on time" when journeys have been delayed or cancelled, what it is doing to (a) improve passenger communication and (b) ensure ScotRail and Network Rail are updating timetable changes and rail information in good time.