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-06586
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 02 April 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 19 April 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive, in light of comments from the Auditor General for Scotland that demand-side transport policies such as road-pricing schemes and workplace parking charges "that have not been attractive in the past might have to be considered", what discussions the Cabinet Secretary for Infrastructure and Capital Investment has had on this matter and with whom.
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Question reference: S4W-06426
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 March 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 10 April 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive whether the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment will meet representatives of Unite the Union to discuss proposals to review the Scottish Agricultural Wages Board.
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Question reference: S4W-06425
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 March 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 30 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what form the new favourable condition targets for sites of special scientific interest and other notified nature conservation sites will take.
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Question reference: S4W-06424
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 23 March 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Stewart Stevenson on 30 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive when it will issue new favourable condition targets for sites of special scientific interest and other notified nature conservation sites.
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Question reference: S4W-06121
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 March 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what recent meetings it has had with other UK administrations to discuss the ecological coherence of the network of marine protected areas in the UK and Scottish marine areas.
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Question reference: S4W-06119
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 March 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive how the contribution of Scotland's marine protected areas (MPA) to the ecological coherence of the MPA network across the Oslo-Paris Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) area will be assessed.
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Question reference: S4W-06118
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 March 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive how the ecological coherence of the network of marine protected areas under the Marine (Scotland) Act 2010 is assessed.
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Question reference: S4W-06120
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 09 March 2012
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 23 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what recent meetings it has held with other states parties to the Oslo-Paris Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic (OSPAR) to discuss the ecological coherence of the network of marine protected areas across the OSPAR area.
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Question reference: S4O-00821
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 14 March 2012
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive what measures it is taking to address female unemployment in Fife.
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Question reference: S4O-00803
- Asked by: Claire Baker, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 07 March 2012
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 March 2012
To ask the Scottish Executive whether an industrial operation may operate outwith the permitted hours specified in its planning permission.