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: S4W-02927
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 26 September 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Alex Neil on 24 October 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when it plans to review the effectiveness of the repeal of the Home Energy Conservation Act 1995 in order to monitor whether voluntary arrangements are sufficient to ensure that local authorities are reducing carbon emissions and fuel poverty in all housing in their area.
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Question reference: S4O-00292
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 October 2011
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 October 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what proportion of the 20,000 socially rented homes that were announced by the Minister for Housing and Transport on 6 October 2011 will be built in Edinburgh.
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Question reference: S4W-03005
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 27 September 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 19 October 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will provide a substantive answer to question S4W-02238, which has received a holding answer.
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Question reference: S4W-03039
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 September 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 18 October 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has assessed the impact that a failure to comply with the recommendation in A Low Carbon Building Standards Strategy for Scotland (The Sullivan Report) regarding the publication of energy standards in building regulations may have on building firms and others in the construction industry.
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Question reference: S4W-03038
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 September 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 18 October 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will publish the 2016 energy standards in building regulations in 2013, as recommended in A Low Carbon Building Standards Strategy for Scotland (The Sullivan Report).
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Question reference: S4W-03043
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 September 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 18 October 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has formed a working party to consider the (a) 2013 and (b) 2016 changes to energy standards in building regulations and, if so, when it (i) has met and (ii) will report.
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Question reference: S4W-03040
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 September 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 18 October 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has assessed the impact that a failure to comply with the recommendation in A Low Carbon Building Standards Strategy for Scotland (The Sullivan Report) regarding the publication of energy standards in building regulations may have on the ability of building firms and others in the construction industry to accurately predict costs for the post-2013 construction of new buildings.
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Question reference: S4W-03037
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 September 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 18 October 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive whether it published the 2013 energy standards in building regulations in 2010, as recommended in A Low Carbon Building Standards Strategy for Scotland (The Sullivan Report).
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Question reference: S4W-03041
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 September 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 18 October 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive what it considers the impact on the construction industry's ability to accurately predict costs will be of announcing a target carbon dioxide emissions reduction from changes to energy standards in building regulations without publishing the standards that will achieve that reduction.
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Question reference: S4W-03044
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 29 September 2011
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen Campbell on 18 October 2011
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will consult on the detail of the (a) 2013 and (b) 2016 changes to energy standards in building regulations.
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