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-00111
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 8 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that its proposals on changes to council tax comply with its treaty obligations under the European Charter of Local Self-Government.
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Question reference: S5F-00125
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 June 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 30 June 2016
To ask the First Minister when the Cabinet will next meet.
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Question reference: S5O-00036
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 June 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 15 June 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what recent discussions it has had with the EIS regarding its ballot for industrial action.
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Question reference: S5F-00036
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 06 June 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 June 2016
To ask the First Minister when the Cabinet will next meet.
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Question reference: S5F-00015
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 31 May 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 June 2016
To ask the First Minister when the Cabinet will next meet.
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Question reference: S4F-03338
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 21 March 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 23 March 2016
To ask the First Minister what the Scottish Government's position is on the modernisation of the Land Settlement (Scotland) Act 1919.
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Question reference: S4F-03263
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 February 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 February 2016
To ask the First Minister what discussions the Scottish Government has had about the relationship between Prestwick airport and The Trump Organization.
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Question reference: S4O-05255
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 06 January 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 14 January 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what the implications for Scotland are of the Paris agreement for fossil fuel production and consumption.
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Question reference: S4F-03144
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 05 January 2016
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 January 2016
To ask the First Minister what impact the introduction of an upper band of the minimum wage for workers over 25 will have on pay inequality and in-work poverty in Scotland.
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Question reference: S4O-05177
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 December 2015
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 December 2015
To ask the Scottish Government what the implications are for skills and training of its proposed national infrastructure priority on energy efficiency.
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