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: S4W-14724
- 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 what information it has on how many of the companies bidding for the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route pay full UK tax on their UK business.
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Question reference: S4W-14722
- 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 how many of the companies bidding for Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route contracts are headquartered in (a) Scotland and (b) the UK.
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Question reference: S4W-14664
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 16 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what effect the creation of the Scottish Mines Restoration Trust will have on existing planning obligations placed on coal mining companies.
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Question reference: S4W-14666
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 16 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what impact the liquidation of Scottish Coal will have on any applications by the company for coal extraction that are in the planning system.
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Question reference: S4W-14663
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 16 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government how the Scottish Mines Restoration Trust will engage with communities situated next to opencast coal mining sites.
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Question reference: S4W-14665
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 03 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 16 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what sources of funding will exist for the Scottish Mines Restoration Trust.
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Question reference: S4W-14583
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 29 April 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 13 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the finding of the report, Unburnable carbon 2013: Wasted capital and stranded assets, that between 60 and 80% of coal, oil and gas reserves of publicly listed companies are unburnable if the world is to have a chance of not exceeding a rise in global average temperature of more than 2°C.
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Question reference: S4W-14631
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 May 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 13 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4F-00845 by Alex Salmond on 13 September 2012 (Official Report, c. 11413), on what date it will publish its estimate of the climate impact of its policy on air passenger duty.
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Question reference: S4W-14584
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 29 April 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 8 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with the UK Government about offering rebates on energy bills in exchange for local unconventional fossil fuel extraction developments.
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Question reference: S4W-14226
- Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 April 2013
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 3 May 2013
To ask the Scottish Government whether, in light of reported concerns, it will bring forward a report on the operation of offences under section 11 of the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications (Scotland) Act 2012 in advance of the completion of the review period.
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