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: S5O-03106
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 March 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 4 April 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what impact automatic vehicle speed limiters could have on the financial costs of speed limit enforcement.
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Question reference: S5F-03174
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 18 March 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 March 2019
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5O-03046
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 21 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body, following the installation of new security devices at passholder entrances, what action it is taking to address queues forming and delays to entry.
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Question reference: S5W-21379
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 27 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what correspondence or discussions it has had with cheese producers regarding the document, Guidance for Local Authority Enforcement Officers on the Production of Cheese from Unpasteurised Milk; whether it is aware of any concerns regarding this guidance, and, if so, what its response is to these.
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Question reference: S5F-03087
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 February 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 February 2019
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5W-21381
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 21 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government whether the document, Guidance for Local Authority Enforcement Officers on the Production of Cheese from Unpasteurised Milk, was approved by ministers prior to its adoption.
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Question reference: S5W-21380
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 01 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Joe FitzPatrick on 21 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what consultation was undertaken by (a) the Scottish Food Enforcement Liaison Committee and (b) Food Standards Scotland prior to the development of the document, Guidance for Local Authority Enforcement Officers on the Production of Cheese from Unpasteurised Milk.
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Question reference: S5F-03039
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 February 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 February 2019
Question to be taken in chamber.
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Question reference: S5O-02854
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 January 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 6 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to the document, Towards a Cooperative University, by Queen Margaret University members of the University and College Union Scotland.
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Question reference: S5F-03015
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 28 January 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 31 January 2019
Question to be taken in Chamber.