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
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Question reference: S6W-25976
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 18 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-19266 by Mairi McAllan on 28 June 2023, whether it will provide an updated table listing any additional monitoring carried out, further to the surveys detailed in the previous answer.
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Question reference: S6W-25977
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 March 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 18 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-25408 by Mairi McAllan on 4 March 2024, whether it will confirm (a) which sites are due to be surveyed in (i) 2024 and (ii) 2025 and (b) where information on recent and upcoming surveys can be publicly accessed, in light of the resource that was linked to the previous answer appearing not to have been updated since 2018.
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Question reference: S6W-25326
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 February 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 6 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-22049 by Tom Arthur on 20 October 2023, whether it can provide an update on the work that is being undertaken to implement a devolved tax, and whether it will provide more details regarding any barriers to its implementation.
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Question reference: S6W-25595
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 February 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 5 March 2024
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Question reference: S6W-25596
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 20 February 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 5 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government whether any local authorities that are yet to publish their Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy (LHEES) and delivery plan have indicated by what date these will be completed, and, if so, (a) which ones and (b) what timeframes have been offered.
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Question reference: S6W-25292
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 February 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 4 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the findings of the report, Nothing to See Here, which was published on 5 February 2024, and, in particular, the findings that (a) "official narratives" suggest that most deaths in custody are "regrettable but inevitable" and (b) "FAIs are normalising the deaths of drug users as inevitable".
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Question reference: S6W-25409
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 February 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 4 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-19267 by Mairi McAllan on 27 June 2023, whether it will provide a more specific timeframe for the delivery of the next report to the Parliament.
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Question reference: S6W-25408
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 February 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 4 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-19266 by Mairi McAllan on 28 June 2023, how many sites are currently being monitored.
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Question reference: S6W-25395
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 February 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 1 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-24707 by Richard Lochhead on 6 February 2024, how it defines "access" to a superfast broadband in that context, and in particular whether that includes homes where the relevant infrastructure is not yet in place but could hypothetically be installed.
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Question reference: S6W-25613
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 22 February 2024
- Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 1 March 2024
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its commitment in the Islands Connectivity Plan to "provide free foot passenger travel on inter-island ferries for under 22-year-old island residents within the Outer Hebrides, Orkney, and Shetland Island groups", whether it will provide a more detailed timeline for the introduction of this policy.