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-27214
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 August 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 14 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-22977 by Paul Wheelhouse on 14 November 2014, how many people had obtained an identification number by 1 August 2015.
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Question reference: S4W-27213
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 August 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 14 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-19275 by Paul Wheelhouse on 30 January 2014, how many people had attended the training by 1 August 2015.
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Question reference: S4W-27099
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 August 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 4 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comments by the Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform on 11 August 2015, what criteria will be applied in determining whether the licensing of shooting businesses should be introduced, and when this determination will be made.
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Question reference: S4W-27097
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 August 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 3 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish the findings of its study of the sentences applied in wildlife crime cases.
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Question reference: S4W-27098
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 August 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Aileen McLeod on 3 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what the remit is of its examination of the regulation of game shooting, and when its findings will be published.
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Question reference: S4W-27152
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 19 August 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 1 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the announcement by the Minister for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform on 9 June 2015 that energy efficiency will be designated as a national infrastructure priority, what new measures it will take to deliver energy efficiency improvements in the transport sector.
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Question reference: S4T-01096
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 31 August 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 1 September 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with National Museums Scotland regarding the ongoing pay dispute.
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Question reference: S4W-26499
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2015
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 30 July 2015
To ask the Scottish Government when planning decisions will be taken on the Allt Duine, Sallachy and Glencassley proposals for renewable development.
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Question reference: S4W-26501
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 28 July 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what monitoring and enforcement tools it has put in place to ensure that fishing vessels comply with the pelagic discard ban; how many warnings have been issued to fishing vessels in Scotland for infringing the ban; how many infringements have been recorded; whether there have been prosecutions in Scotland for infringement of the ban, and, if so, how many.
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Question reference: S4W-26500
- Asked by: Sarah Boyack, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 July 2015
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 28 July 2015
To ask the Scottish Government how the implementation of the pelagic discard ban has affected the pelagic fleet and what evaluation it has undertaken of the success of the ban.
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