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: S4W-01731
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 12 August 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what the criteria will be to define a green skills academy.
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Question reference: S4W-01732
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Alasdair Allan on 12 August 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what involvement local authorities will have in establishing regional green skills academies and how many meetings it has had with them on this.
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Question reference: S4W-01689
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 July 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 11 August 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how much money it has allocated to the National Housing Trust initiative to build affordable homes.
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Question reference: S4W-01686
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 July 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 11 August 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many affordable homes will be (a) built and (b) available for social rent in the current parliamentary session.
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Question reference: S4W-01688
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 July 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 11 August 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether all new (a) affordable homes and (b) socially-rented houses that it plans to deliver in the current parliamentary session will be built under the National Housing Trust initiative.
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Question reference: S4W-01687
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 15 July 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 11 August 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how many affordable homes will be delivered under the National Housing Trust initiative.
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Question reference: S4W-01733
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 July 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what funding it gives to community groups to develop community-owned renewable power facilities.
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Question reference: S4W-01734
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 July 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will impose a community benefit fund requirement on the large-scale renewable power developments which it is responsibile for.
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Question reference: S4W-01735
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 19 July 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how it ensures that renewable energy projects developed on public land provide benefit to local communities.
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Question reference: S4W-01737
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 11 August 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will develop a self-financing funding scheme for community renewables.
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