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-13171
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 6 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to its recent consultation Delivering our Vision for Scottish Agriculture, how it defines "high quality food production".
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Question reference: S6W-13170
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 13 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 5 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the commitment in its National Strategy for Economic Transformation, published in March 2022, what progress has been made on the development of a national project pipeline for nature-based solutions.
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Question reference: S6W-13051
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 5 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the response rate was to its consultation, Land Reform in a Net Zero Nation, and when it will publish its response.
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Question reference: S6W-13050
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 5 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what recent work it has done on introducing a cap on the total amount of land that can be owned in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-13052
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 5 January 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of requiring community wealth building principles to be included in land management plans.
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Question reference: S6W-13004
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 22 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many active working groups there are that fall under the remit of (a) climate change, (b) environment, (c) land reform, (d) green skills, (e) circular economy and (f) biodiversity, and whether it will provide a list of these groups.
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Question reference: S6W-12943
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 20 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will propose a debate in the Parliament on the scale and scope of the work to be allocated to the working group that is due to precede the proposed citizens' assembly on local government funding prior to the working group becoming operational.
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Question reference: S6W-12945
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 20 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether the working group that is due to precede the proposed citizens' assembly on local government funding will include representatives of tenants' rights organisations, antipoverty organisations, trade unions and other relevant bodies.
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Question reference: S6W-12944
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 20 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when it anticipates the working group that is due to precede the proposed citizens' assembly on local government funding will begin its work.
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Question reference: S6W-12749
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 19 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking through the Fair Work Framework and Fair Work First initiatives to develop best-practice guidance on anti-sexist practices and prevention of sexual harassment in the workplace.