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 2190 questions Show Answers
Question reference: S6W-07228
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 21 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what options are available to local authorities to provide the £150 council tax rebate to people who do not have a bank account or do not pay by direct debit.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-07223
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 18 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many residential drug rehabilitation spaces were provided in the Highlands and Islands region from the £5 million that was allocated before the end of the 2020-21 financial year.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-07222
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 18 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how the share of the £5 million, which was allocated before the end of the 2020-21 financial year for residential drug rehabilitation services in the Highlands and Islands region, was distributed.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-07221
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 18 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many meetings of the Drug Deaths Taskforce have taken place since September 2019; what the key outcomes of these meetings were, and how many of these key outcomes have been implemented.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-06333
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 08 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 7 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) local authorities and (b) any of its agencies that have compulsory purchase powers can use such powers to purchase land for the purpose of the land being used for carbon sequestration, and what (i) legislation and (ii) guidance exists on this matter.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-06145
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 1 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what the remit is of the recently established Agricultural Policy Development Group.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-06147
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 1 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what the crofting representation is on the recently established Agricultural Policy Development Group.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-06150
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 1 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how the recently established Agricultural Policy Development Group fits into the decision-making process of agricultural development.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-06151
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 1 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how the role of the recently established Agricultural Policy Development Group differs in remit from the Academic Advisory Panel that provides support to the Agricultural Reform Oversight Implementation Board.
Answer
Question reference: S6W-06148
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 1 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government who the recently established Agricultural Policy Development Group reports to.