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-07102
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 18 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports that re-processing of recycled material captured in Scotland may not occur in Scotland due to a lack of facilities, what its position is on the likely impact of the Deposit Return Scheme on the quality and quantity of recycled glass that is available to manufacturers in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-07105
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 18 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity's comment to the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee, on 25 January 2022, that glass is not to be mechanically crushed as part of its Deposit Return Scheme, whether this replaces any previous plans for such glass to be crushed in reverse vending machines (RVMs); whether this will require different and more expensive RVMs to be used; what inquiries the minister or her officials have made on the cost implications of requiring that glass not be crushed; whether this will necessitate more frequent collections of glass recyclate, and, if so, what consideration has been given to that and any consequential costs and additional carbon emissions, and what its position is on whether it or Circularity Scotland have obtained sufficient information in order to be certain that this will not require additional costs to be incurred in operating the scheme.
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Question reference: S6W-07091
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 18 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, regarding the impact of the proposed Deposit Return Scheme on producers in Scotland, how many producers it estimates are operating in Scotland, and of those, how many it consulted directly.
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Question reference: S6W-07090
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 18 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether consideration has been given to the potential impact of the proposed Deposit Return Scheme on the wholesale sector, and, in light of the information contained in table 1, page 12, paragraph 46 of the Deposit Return Scheme for Scotland Final Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA), published in December 2021, for what reason it did not consult any wholesale businesses.
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Question reference: S6W-07104
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 18 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to the comment by the Minister for Green Skills, Circular Economy and Biodiversity at the Net Zero, Energy and Transport Committee on 25 January 2022 that the Deposit Return Scheme “will significantly increase the quantity and quality of glass recyclate”, what the precise evidence is on which this comment is based, and whether it will publish this evidence.
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Question reference: S6W-07101
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 18 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what efforts it has made to increase the proportion of glass that has been fully recycled and processed in Scotland, and what effect the implementation of the Deposit Return Scheme will have on these efforts.
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Question reference: S6W-07100
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 04 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 18 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of reports that waste captured by the Deposit Return Scheme could be processed outside Scotland, what assessment it has made of whether the economic benefits of a closed-loop glass recycling system would accrue to businesses based in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-04070
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 October 2021
- Current Status: Initiated by the Scottish Government. Answered by Michael Matheson on 28 October 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of its plans for onshore wind in Scotland.
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Question reference: S3O-06602
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
- Current Status: Answered by Kenny MacAskill on 23 April 2009
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Question reference: S3W-06602
- Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness East, Nairn and Lochaber, Scottish National Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 19 November 2007
- Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 3 December 2007