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: S5W-25802
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 11 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 29 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government in what form of (a) investments and (b) other assets are the retained earnings reserve reported in the 2018-19 Scottish Water annual report held.
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Question reference: S5W-25799
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 11 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 29 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether the expenditure for capital projects reported in the Scottish Water annual report and accounts in each of the last three years that has been published in accordance with Section 45(2) of the Water Industry (Scotland) Act 2002 represents unplanned expenditure each year above that anticipated for each listed project.
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Question reference: S5W-25812
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 11 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 25 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-23670 by Paul Wheelhouse on 7 June 2019, by what date it will publish the revised intervention area list.
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Question reference: S5W-25592
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 October 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 14 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what the large business rates supplement has been in each of the last 15 years, broken down by how much tax revenue this generated.
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Question reference: S5W-25577
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 8 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to its paper, Government spend over £25,000: January 2019, for what purpose it spent £98,651.60 on Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, UK Branch.
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Question reference: S5O-03620
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 September 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 3 October 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to protect families who have been affected by domestic abuse.
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Question reference: S5W-25377
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 16 September 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 19 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how much each local authority has been allocated from the Town Centre Fund, also broken by how this has been spent.
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Question reference: S5O-03525
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 September 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 12 September 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to support Highlands and Islands businesses experiencing losses due to cuts in rural banking services.
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Question reference: S5W-23993
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 June 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 18 July 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish the results of the Good Food Nation consultation.
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Question reference: S5W-23718
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 10 June 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 18 June 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how many NHS boards have published annual workforce data for (a) 2017-18 and (b) 2018-19.