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-17861
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 23 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the most recent research is that it has undertaken on Scotland’s resilience to seasonal water scarcity, and what the findings were.
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Question reference: S6W-17859
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 23 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reported early warnings of water scarcity from SEPA for summer 2023, what progress has been made since the water shortages in summer 2022 to improve water availability.
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Question reference: S6W-17858
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 23 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it incentivises responsible water usage by (a) industry and (b) the agriculture sector, in order to prevent seasonal water scarcity.
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Question reference: S6W-17679
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 18 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will continue to distribute funding to (a) national parks and (b) local authorities, as part of its Edinburgh Process Fund, in 2023-24.
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Question reference: S6W-17674
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 18 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what allocation of funding Scotland's (a) two national parks and (b) 32 local authorities received from its Edinburgh Process Fund in 2022-23, and what formula was used to distribute such funding.
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Question reference: S6W-17678
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 18 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with COSLA regarding its Edinburgh Process Fund.
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Question reference: S6W-17677
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 18 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many local authorities applied to the £1.5 million pot to top up their direct allocation of funding from the Edinburgh Process Fund, in order to deliver larger scale, multi-year nature restoration projects, in 2022-23, and, of these, which local authorities received funding, and how much each local authority received.
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Question reference: S6W-17675
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 18 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what monitoring it puts in place for funding allocated to national parks and local authorities from its Edinburgh Process Fund.
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Question reference: S6W-17672
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 04 May 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 18 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how its £65 million annual Nature Restoration Fund was allocated in the 2022-23 financial year.
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Question reference: S6O-02263
- Asked by: Mercedes Villalba, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 May 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 May 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the energy minister has had with ministerial colleagues regarding the recommendations to the Scottish Government contained in the report, Our Power: Offshore Workers’ Demands for a Just Energy Transition.
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