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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-06354
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 24 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills to the Education, Children and Young People Committee on 28 January 2022, whether it will publish a breakdown of the number of problematic spaces by (a) local authority and (b) school.
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Question reference: S6W-06360
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 24 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its assessment is of the impact on children’s cognitive function of learning in education environments where the CO2 readings are in excess of (a) 800, (b) 1,000, (c) 1,500 and (d) 2,000 ppm, and what studies it has taken into account on this matter.
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Question reference: S6W-06357
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 24 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills to the Education, Children and Young People Committee on 28 January 2022, what criteria and definitions were used for categorising a learning, teaching or play space as “problematic” in relation to ventilation; what CO2 reading thresholds were taken into account; whether it will publish details of the descriptions of other categories, broken down by the number of spaces that fall into each category, and whether it considers that the remaining 48,000 spaces are not problematic.
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Question reference: S6W-06359
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 24 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the letter from the Cabinet Secretary for Education and Skills to the Education, Children and Young People Committee on 28 January 2022, whether it will publish the feedback that it received on the proposal to undercut doors.
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Question reference: S6W-06380
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) Equality Impact Assessment and (b) Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment it has conducted in relation to the build-to-rent sector.
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Question reference: S6W-06356
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 24 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether every school classroom has been subject to CO2 monitoring, and, if not, by what date this will be completed.
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Question reference: S6W-06336
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 24 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what (a) time period and (b) discount rate of return was used to calculate the Net Present Value (NPV) figures in table 2 of annex F of the publication, A Deposit Return Scheme for Scotland: Final Business Regulatory Impact Assessment.
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Question reference: S6O-00815
- Asked by: Donald Cameron, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 February 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to reports that Historic Environment Scotland is considering criteria that could be used to identify sites that could be left to managed decline.
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Question reference: S6O-00816
- Asked by: Emma Roddick, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 February 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how it is tackling any issues related to high numbers of second homes in some parts of Scotland.
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Question reference: S6O-00812
- Asked by: Gordon MacDonald, MSP for Edinburgh Pentlands, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 February 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has in place to support World Book Day on 3 March 2022.
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