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: S5W-29744
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Denham on 16 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many applications for eviction proceedings have (a) been made to and (b) not yet been decided by the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Housing and Property Chamber) since 25 March 2020.
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Question reference: S5W-29747
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 15 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many discretionary housing payment awards have been made by local authorities during (a) March, (b) April and (c) May 2020, and what the total value was of those payments.
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Question reference: S5W-29746
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 June 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 15 June 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what communications it has had with tenants and tenant organisations that relate to publicising the extension of notice periods for eviction notices from three to six months under the Coronavirus (Scotland) Act 2020.
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Question reference: S5W-27919
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 March 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 25 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to produce a digital national asset register, bringing together public sector property and land data with socio-economic data.
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Question reference: S5W-27817
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 09 March 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 23 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when it will introduce non-domestic rates relief for small music venues.
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Question reference: S5W-27918
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 March 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 20 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-27624 by Kate Forbes on 10 March 2020, which information is specifically "commercially sensitive”.
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Question reference: S5W-27631
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 13 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comments by the First Minister on 19 December 2019 (Official Report, c. 21), what its timescale is for reconsideration of the introduction of a licensing scheme for grouse shooting.
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Question reference: S5W-27622
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 11 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what the timeframe is for making the use of the Electronic Property Information Mapping Service (e-PIMS) mandatory for (a) its directorates, (b) its agencies and (c) other public bodies.
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Question reference: S5W-27628
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 10 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how it has used or will use the £4.7 million it received from local authorities under the Business Rates Incentivisation Scheme in 2017-18.
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Question reference: S5W-27624
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 10 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish details of the (a) location, (b) tenure and (c) other key attributes of the land and property that it owns that has been entered in the Electronic Property Information Mapping Service (e-PIMS).