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-06242
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 17 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much it estimates it will cost to "update when necessary" the laptops, Chromebooks and tablets given to every school child in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-06243
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 17 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much it estimates it will cost to "replace when needed and upgrade as technology improves" the laptops, Chromebooks and tablets given to every school child in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-06239
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 17 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many free laptops, Chromebooks or tablets have been given to schoolchildren since May 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-06009
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 17 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to reduce pressures on marine habitats that are already known to be important carbon sinks.
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Question reference: S6W-06240
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 16 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many years of funding are in place to pay for the free school meals programme in its entirety, and whether this funding is sufficient to ensure that local authorities will not need to use their funding to deliver the policy.
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Question reference: S6W-06241
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 16 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what investigation it has undertaken to understand the average cost per child to deliver the free school meals programme, and whether this investigation included consideration of any need for additional (a) capital works where there are insufficient eating spaces and (b) serving and cleaning staff, in addition to the cost of the additional meals.
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Question reference: S6W-06059
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Angus Robertson on 16 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what advice has been provided to its Scottish overseas offices in relation to constitution matters.
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Question reference: S6W-06013
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 11 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what resources it plans to invest in order to enable regional and local institutions to apply deliberative approaches to engage civic society in planning for the net zero future of their communities and places.
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Question reference: S6W-06001
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 11 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to expand the Agricultural Transformation Programme.
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Question reference: S6W-06007
- Asked by: Stephen Kerr, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 28 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 11 February 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any plans to ban the extraction of peat for horticulture.
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