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
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Question reference: S6W-22024
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Natalie Don on 26 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether universal school breakfast provision is a means of building a food system that ensures the right to food for children and young people, as laid out in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.
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Question reference: S6W-21711
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 23 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has undertaken any analysis to identify where in (a) Scotland, (b) England, (c) Wales and (d) Northern Ireland potential purchasers of Scottish carbon credits are located.
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Question reference: S6W-21712
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 23 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what process will be followed in the development of the market framework for private investment, as referenced in the Programme for Government 2023-24; over what timescale it is envisaged that the framework will be developed; at what point public engagement will be invited during the development process; when it expects a formal consultation will be held on any framework proposals, and whether an economic appraisal will be undertaken of where the potential financial benefits of any private investment will flow over the whole life impact of the investment.
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Question reference: S6W-21713
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 23 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has assessed or commissioned any independent analysis of (a) the potential future price of carbon in so far as that relates to carbon credits that may be traded from within Scotland and (b) any risks in projecting future carbon prices, and whether it will publish any such assessment or analysis.
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Question reference: S6W-21714
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 23 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to bring forward proposals for the regulation of carbon market participation in Scotland, and what the timetable is for any such plans.
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Question reference: S6W-21715
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 23 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether carbon credits generated in Scotland can be traded outwith the UK.
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Question reference: S6W-21992
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 04 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 23 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when it expects that a biodiversity code, which mirrors the woodland and peatland codes, will be (a) drafted, (b) consulted on and (c) ready for implementation.
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Question reference: S6W-21993
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 05 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 9 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on what steps have been taken to bring domestic abuse courts to the Highlands and Islands.
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Question reference: S6W-21683
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 6 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S6W-20719 and S6W-20720 by Fiona Hyslop on 12 September 2023, and further to its meeting with Police Scotland in August 2023, whether it will provide an update on the proposed pilot National Dashcam Safety Portal, which was due to be implemented in January 2023, and when the timescale for the implementation of this road safety initiative will be known.
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Question reference: S6W-21689
- Asked by: Rhoda Grant, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 3 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what contractual relationships it or NatureScot has with (a) Palladium, (b) Lombard Odier and (c) Hampden Bank in support of mobilising private finance into nature; what payments have been made to any of those parties in the (i) last financial year and (ii) current financial year to date; what the (A) value and (B) duration is of any extant contracts, and what procurement process was followed to secure any such contractual arrangements that are in place.
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