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-16700
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 12 August 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 2 September 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of its target to eradicate fuel poverty, what assessment it has made of the measures called for by the Energy Bill Revolution campaign and what information it has on how many properties in Scotland could be made more energy efficient if the UK Government used the estimated £4 billion collected from carbon taxes over the next 15 years to fund the measures called for by the campaign.
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Question reference: S4W-16471
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 August 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Nicola Sturgeon on 30 August 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether Scotland’s access to the internet is dependent on internet exchange points in London and Manchester and whether there are plans to establish (a) an internet exchange point in Scotland and (b) direct connections to internet exchange points in other European countries.
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Question reference: S4W-16573
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 02 August 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 28 August 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what bus operators applied for monies through each of the Scottish Green Bus Funds.
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Question reference: S4T-00416
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 24 June 2013
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 25 June 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the affordability and public reporting concerns raised in Audit Scotland's report, Scotland's key transport infrastructure projects.
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Question reference: S4O-02282
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 12 June 2013
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 20 June 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether it considers that the prohibition of convicted prisoners from voting in elections is compatible with its commitment to incorporate the European Convention on Human Rights into an independent Scotland's written constitution.
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Question reference: S4W-14668
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 7 June 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4W-14226 by Roseanna Cunningham on 3 May 2013, whether it will provide the information that was requested and confirm whether it will bring forward a report before the completion of the review period; whether the legislation forbids it from producing such a report, and what its position is on how offences under section (a) 1 and (b) 6 of the Act are being dealt with.
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Question reference: S4O-02259
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 June 2013
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 13 June 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Scottish greenhouse gas inventory will show that the emission target for 2011 has been reached, and whether the shortfall resulting from the missed target in 2010 has been compensated for.
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Question reference: S4W-14667
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 4 June 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions ministers have had with Hargreaves Services Plc about the formation of the Scottish Mines Restoration Trust.
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Question reference: S4T-00377
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 May 2013
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what recent representations it has received regarding rendition flights landing in Scotland.
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Question reference: S4W-14725
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 21 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether the contracts for the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route will ensure that the successful bidders will (a) not make use of tax avoidance practices, (b) pay at least a living wage to all employees, (c) use local staff and raw materials where possible and (d) demonstrate a commitment to sustainable construction practices.
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