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-26512
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 16 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the research used as the basis for the reported comments of the Minister for Energy, Just Transition and Fair Work, during the March 2024 Scotonomics Festival of Economics, that Scotland will "potentially not even have the population capacity to deal with the amount of jobs" created by the energy transition away from fossil fuels.
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Question reference: S6W-26213
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 16 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what targeted funding it is providing to local authorities to purchase electric school buses.
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Question reference: S6W-26214
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 16 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many electric school buses it has supported each local authority to purchase, in each of the past three years.
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Question reference: S6W-26212
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 15 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what material support it plans to provide towards a pilot scheme proposed by the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh to establish air quality monitors in select schools in Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Glasgow and Perth.
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Question reference: S6W-26253
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 9 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the number of canine breeding services operating in Scotland over the last five years.
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Question reference: S6W-26252
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Jim Fairlie on 9 April 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to strengthen the ability of (a) local authorities and (b) other relevant bodies to enforce animal welfare regulations.
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Question reference: S6W-26011
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 07 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 22 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-25286 by Lorna Slater on 22 February 2024, and in light of the specific commitment given by the then Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform in a letter to the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform Committee, dated 24 March 2021, that "work is underway on the development of roadmaps" for each of the priority sectors listed in the updated Climate Change Plan, whether it will address that commitment and provide an update on when the sectoral roadmaps will be published for (a) electricity, (b) buildings, (c) transport, (d) industry, (e) waste and the circular economy, (f) land use, land use change and forestry, (g) agriculture and (h) negative emissions technologies.
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Question reference: S6W-26076
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 22 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-25599 by Maree Todd on 4 March 2024, what the current trajectory and timeline are for clearing long waits for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) in NHS Tayside.
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Question reference: S6W-26077
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 22 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-25597 by Maree Todd on 4 March 2024, in light of it stating that "information...on patients starting treatment within 10 weeks is not available", how it is also able to state that "1 in 2 people referred to CAMHS [child and adolescent mental health services] start treatment within 10 weeks".
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Question reference: S6W-26074
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 21 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of any demand for traditional building skills to support its net zero policies.
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