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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: S4W-01708

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 what criteria it will use to classify a low carbon enterprise zone.

Question reference: S4W-01717

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 what the added value to the economy is of the research and development work by the Scottish Energy Laboratory.

Question reference: S4W-01718

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 what support it gives to attract research and development investment.

Question reference: S4W-01739

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 the Scottish Futures Trust will publish plans for a national financing model for renewable heat schemes.

Question reference: S4W-01705

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 8 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive what progress it has made since 2007 in reducing carbon emissions.

Information on progress toward reducing carbon emissions arising from operations on the Scottish Government estate is detailed in the Scottish Government’s Environmental Performance Annual Report for 2008-09; copies are available in the Scottish Parliament Information Centre (Bib. number 50874).

Information in respect of progress during 2009-10 is currently being collated for publication later this year.

Question reference: S4W-01706

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Monday, 18 July 2011
Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 4 August 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how it plans to reach its proposed interim target of 42% emissions reduction by 2020.

Scottish ministers set out their policies and proposals for meeting annual emissions reduction targets for 2010-22, including the interim target of 42% by 2020, in the Report on Proposals and Policies, a statutory requirement of the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009. Low Carbon Scotland: Meeting the Emissions Reduction Targets 2010-2022 was laid in draft in Parliament on 17 November 2010, and laid in its final form in Parliament on 14 March 2011.

Question reference: S4W-01076

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 27 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how many central heating systems it estimates will be installed under the Energy Assistance Package scheme over the next five years, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S4W-01206

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Friday, 24 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 22 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive when will it appoint a chair to the Scottish Fuel Poverty Forum.

Question reference: S4W-01072

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 20 July 2011

To ask the Scottish Executive how the recent energy price increases announced by Scottish Power will impact on its target for the eradication of fuel poverty by 2016.

Scottish ministers have expressed their concern over recent price increases announced by Scottish Power, both to the Company itself and the regulator, Ofgem. We estimate that up to a further 170,000 households could be placed into fuel poverty if the increase was replicated across all suppliers. Scottish ministers remain committed to the 2016 target but it is extremely challenging in the light of recent energy price increases.

Question reference: S4W-01078

Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
Date lodged: Wednesday, 22 June 2011
Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 20 July 2011