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: S6O-01959
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 February 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how the Clyde Metro project will improve rail services on the existing Milngavie line.
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Question reference: S6W-14283
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 24 January 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 7 February 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide the annual operating cost of the Scottish Survey of Literacy and Numeracy in each of the final three years in which it ran.
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Question reference: S6W-13575
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 January 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 23 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding Flamingo Land's Lomond Banks planning application, whether Transport Scotland completed a carbon impact assessment, or any other assessment, of the application's potential impact on Scottish Government climate and car kilometre reduction targets before submitting its response to the planning application to the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park Authority.
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Question reference: S6W-13586
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 January 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 13 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many transactions the Additional Dwelling Supplement has been applied to in (a) the 2022-23 financial year to date and (b) each of the previous four full financial years, also broken down by local authority area.
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Question reference: S6W-13266
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 10 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-08841 by Patrick Harvie on 14 June 2022, what progress has been made since June 2022 to increase the number of contractors in the Greater Glasgow area that are approved by Home Energy Scotland for the purpose of installing exterior wall insultation.
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Question reference: S6W-13272
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 15 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 20 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether its Graduate Development Programme was delivered in 2022.
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Question reference: S6F-01653
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 December 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 December 2022
To ask the First Minister how the Scottish Government is supporting public transport to be better used and more affordable.
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Question reference: S6W-12568
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 November 2022
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Lorna Slater on 24 November 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will report on the outcome of the recent summit meeting of the British Irish Council in Blackpool.
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Question reference: S6O-01475
- Asked by: Ross Greer, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 October 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 October 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the People's Plan for Action published earlier in October by the Scottish Trades Union Congress, Poverty Alliance, Living Rent and a number of other groups.