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.
Criathragan Hide all filters
Displaying 8794 questions Show Answers
Question reference: S5W-34094
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission and its indication that it plans to continue with international work, what its position is on whether it is appropriate that the commission permits the use of air travel rewards from such business travel for personal gain, and how this permission compares with advice to civil servants.
Answer
Question reference: S5W-34084
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, whether it will publish the assumptions and calculations that give rise to the minimum annual revenue expectation of £1,392 million in 2026-27, and, using the modelling assumptions for the strategic review of charges, what minimum charge would be necessary to generate this level of income.
Answer
Question reference: S5W-34115
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether any loan offered to Business Stream by Scottish Water to assist it to trade as a result of lost business from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, constitutes a State Aid or could otherwise be regarded as an anti-competitive practice by a state-owned company, with a monopoly, operating in a competitive market.
Answer
Question reference: S5W-34092
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, what assumptions have been made about cash balances held by Scottish Water at the end of 2020-21, and how those assumptions compare with the outcome set in the 2015-21 final determination.
Answer
Question reference: S5W-34086
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, whether there is any flexibility in the expectation of the level of income to be raised in 2026-27, and whether any expectation is a formal part of the regulatory settlement for the period.
Answer
Question reference: S5W-34085
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, what the actual split between domestic and business customers of Scottish Water’s income has been in each of the last 10 years.
Answer
Question reference: S5W-34089
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, where customers can find the performance measures that Scottish Water is expected to meet over the 2021-27 period that have been previously set out in a final determination.
Answer
Question reference: S5W-34093
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-30856 by Roseanna Cunningham on 13 August 2020 and the publication of the final determination of water charges by the Water Industry Commission, how the figure of £1.5 million quoted as a benefit from international work was calculated.
Answer
Question reference: S5W-34095
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the publication of the final determination of charges by the Water Industry Commission, what its position is on whether 11 responses to the consultation on the draft determination can be considered a success.
Answer
Question reference: S5W-34116
- Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 December 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 11 January 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will publish the terms of any loan and repayment requirements given to Business Stream by its parent company, Scottish Water, in respect of support through difficult trading arrangements arising from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Answer
