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-29935
- 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 total power use is provided for in Scotland’s national electricity supply framework arrangements.
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Question reference: S6W-29970
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 1 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many properties there are with unsafe cladding in each Scottish Parliament constituency.
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Question reference: S6W-29969
- Asked by: Katy Clark, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 1 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government when it anticipates that all unsafe cladding in Scotland will be removed or remediated.
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Question reference: S6W-29941
- 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 has provided guidance or direction to Procurement Scotland that seeks to ensure that community-owned energy providers and public body self-owned generation within a local authority area are not disadvantaged in any national electricity supply procurement arrangements.
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Question reference: S6W-29987
- Asked by: Tim Eagle, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answer expected on 1 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding will be available for the Highlands and Islands in each of the next five years from the Rural Affordable Homes for Key Workers Fund, as set out in the Programme for Government 2024-25.
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Question reference: S6W-29971
- Asked by: Sandesh Gulhane, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answer expected on 1 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government how many people aged 65 and over have been treated within the NHS for exposure to excessive natural cold in each year since 2010.
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Question reference: S6W-29955
- Asked by: Liz Smith, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 1 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the Scottish Retail Consortium’s suggestion in its Retail industry recommendations for the 2025-26 Scottish Budget paper, that spending restraint rather than tax rises should form the bulk of the measures to plug the projected gap in devolved government finances.
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Question reference: S6W-29939
- 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 which public agencies, other than local authorities, are part of Scotland's national electricity supply framework arrangements, and what share of the procured arrangements any such agencies are estimated to have.
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Question reference: S6W-29929
- Asked by: Sharon Dowey, MSP for South Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 September 2024
- Current Status: Answer expected on 1 October 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what plans are in place to ensure that forestry planting rates will rise to 18,000 hectares, as per the woodland creation target.
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Question reference: S6W-29952
- 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 when it will publish its Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan, and what public funding it will make available to deliver this in (a) 2024-25, (b) 2025-26 and (c) 2026-27.
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