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-00910
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 24 June 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it is taking to create a climate adaptation fund.
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Question reference: S4W-00907
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2011
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 24 June 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it plans to allocate new funding to (a) social and charity banking and (b) micro-finance schemes.
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Question reference: S4W-00903
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2011
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 24 June 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when it plans to introduce a one-stop finance information service.
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Question reference: S4W-00913
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 24 June 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it will cost to deliver 100 community sports hubs across Scotland by 2014.
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Question reference: S4W-00906
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 16 June 2011
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 24 June 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce the three projects that will pilot social impact bonds and how much money it will allocate to these bonds.
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Question reference: S4W-00646
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 23 June 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how it will spend the money that it has received in Barnett consequentials arising from the UK Government’s planned enterprise zones.
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Question reference: S4W-00647
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 23 June 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will create enterprise zones in Scotland and, if so, what process it will undertake in deciding which areas to designate enterprise zones; which areas it will designate; what the timetable is, and what outcomes it hopes to achieve in the (a) short and (b) long term.
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Question reference: S4W-00644
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 23 June 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has received in Barnett consequentials as a consequence of the UK Government’s planned enterprise zones.
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Question reference: S4W-00645
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 09 June 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 23 June 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will spend the Barnett consequentials received as a consequence of the UK Government’s planned enterprise zones on creating enterprise zones in Scotland.
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Question reference: S4W-00606
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 June 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 21 June 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when the Cabinet Secretary for Finance, Employment and Sustainable Growth and the Minister for Housing and Transport first became aware that the security staff at Highlands and Islands Airport employed by Airport Management Services were being paid less than the living wage.
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