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-03131
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 21 February 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the Scottish Prison Service’s work to address reported noise disturbance at HMP Stirling.
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Question reference: S6O-03090
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 February 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to publish its response to its consultation on the licensing of activities involving animals.
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Question reference: S6W-24788
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 5 February 2024
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to request advice from the Climate Change Committee regarding the appropriate value of the multiplier to be applied to greenhouse gas emissions from aviation, as required by section 2C(3)(h) of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 as amended.
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Question reference: S6O-03004
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 January 2024
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the support that is available for people living with, or affected by, dementia.
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Question reference: S6W-24040
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 16 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-23014 by Neil Gray on 28 November 2023, until such time as the review of the carbon calculator is completed, how it plans to comply with policy 5(c)(ii) of the National Planning Framework 4 by ensuring that developers correctly calculate emissions from the development versus the carbon savings to be made from displacing fossil fuels from the grid.
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Question reference: S6W-24041
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 11 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given as part of its planning reform programme to require greater public transparency of developers’ actions to meet the planning conditions attached to large-scale developments.
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Question reference: S6W-24038
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Maree Todd on 9 January 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether sportscotland continues to allocate any funding to support the development of a tennis centre at Park of Keir.
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Question reference: S6W-23751
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how often it has met with community groups since June 2022, when it accepted recommendation 9 of the independent review of the role of incineration to facilitate the co-production of guidelines for effective community engagement by the end of 2023.
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Question reference: S6W-23750
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish Ministers have the power to direct SEPA to refuse pollution prevention and control permits to new incineration plants under regulation 60 of the Pollution Prevention and Control (Scotland) Regulations 2012.
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Question reference: S6W-23727
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 19 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of any risks to Scotland's native trees from the fungus, Curreya pithyophila.