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-23541
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 14 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when it plans to announce funding for the Grangemouth Flood Protection Scheme.
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Question reference: S6W-23543
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 14 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the predicted extent of pollution of the Firth of Forth would be in the event that Grangemouth is affected by a major flood.
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Question reference: S6W-23540
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 14 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when it last met with a representative of Falkirk Council to discuss the Grangemouth Flood Protection Scheme.
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Question reference: S6W-23326
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 14 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has provided to the Scottish Wildlife Trust in each year since 2016.
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Question reference: S6W-23545
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 13 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to re-skill any staff who may lose their job at Grangemouth Refinery.
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Question reference: S6W-23544
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 December 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 13 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the predicted economic consequences of the expected closure of Grangemouth Refinery.
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Question reference: S6W-23362
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Claire Baker (on behalf of the SPCB) on 8 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether any evidence was provided by Michael Matheson to prove the parliamentary nature, rather than a personal or governmental nature, of his reported expense claim for over £10,000 for cellular data in Morocco.
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Question reference: S6W-21592
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 4 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of it being listed as the current site owner on its Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey – site register publication, what plans it has to develop the site of the former remand centre car park at Avonhead Road, Upperton.
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Question reference: S6W-21590
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 21 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 4 December 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of it being listed as the current site owner on its Scottish Vacant and Derelict Land Survey – site register publication, what plans it has to develop the site of the former social club at The Crescent, Upperton, Airdrie.
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Question reference: S6W-23007
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 17 November 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what funding it has made available to public sector bodies, including local authorities, for staff welfare in the last two years; what any such funding has been used for, and how it will assess the outcomes.
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