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-12752
- 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 assessment it has made of whether an independent specialist body is needed to receive sexual harassment complaints, offer advice, investigate patterns of concern and make structural recommendations for specific employers in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-12751
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 15 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will seek to introduce a duty on preventing sexual harassment under the Scotland-specific regulations of the public sector equality duty, including a requirement to develop a standalone policy on sexual harassment.
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Question reference: S6W-12750
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Christina McKelvie on 15 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to raise public awareness of the different forms of sexual harassment, including workplace harassment.
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Question reference: S6W-12760
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 15 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether any regional marine plans agreed either prior to, or after, the publication of the next National Marine Plan will include comprehensive marine spatial planning for all economic activities in their area.
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Question reference: S6W-12759
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 15 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the time that has elapsed since the passage of the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010, whether the next National Marine Plan will include interim spatial plans to give clarity on appropriate locations for all economic activities in Scotland's inshore waters until the relevant regional marine plans have been adopted.
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Question reference: S6W-12746
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 14 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any plans to introduce trials for a four-day working week in the public sector.
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Question reference: S6W-12747
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 14 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government when the four-day working week trials in the private sector are scheduled to begin.
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Question reference: S6W-12780
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 14 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication of its Private Sector Rent Statistics Scotland, 2010 to 2022, what steps it is taking to reduce private sector rents in the seven areas of Scotland that have seen average rents increase above the rate of inflation.
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Question reference: S6W-12762
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 14 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what evidence there is that a cap on fishing activity in inshore waters, up to three nautical miles, limiting activity to current levels, as per the Bute House Agreement, will bring economic or ecological benefits.
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Question reference: S6W-12781
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 01 December 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 14 December 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication of its Private Sector Rent Statistics Scotland, 2010 to 2022, what steps it is taking to reduce private sector rents, in light of average rents having increased in 17 of the 18 regions of Scotland.