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: S6W-22236
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Jenni Minto on 10 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how many animals have failed meat inspections under the Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies Regulations (Scotland) 2010, for each year since the regulations were introduced, also broken down by local authority area.
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Question reference: S6W-22166
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 8 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of (a) recyclable and (b) non-recyclable waste in Scotland has been exported to non-OECD countries in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S6W-22414
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 8 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the housing stock in each local authority area is comprised of homes within buildings constructed before 1914.
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Question reference: S6W-22415
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 8 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S6W-21728 and S6W-21745 by Patrick Harvie on 23 and 24 October 2023 respectively, what discussions it has had with Historic Environment Scotland on approaches to retrofitting traditional and listed buildings.
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Question reference: S6W-22417
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 8 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what research it (a) has conducted and (b) plans to conduct into the results of various energy efficiency interventions on traditional and listed buildings.
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Question reference: S6W-22540
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Monday, 30 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Dorothy Bain on 8 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what assurances Police Scotland has given to the Lord Advocate about supporting the establishment of a safer drug consumption facility in Glasgow.
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Question reference: S6W-22416
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 8 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S6W-21728 and S6W-21745 by Patrick Harvie on 23 and 24 October 2023 respectively, which stakeholders it (a) has had and (b) plans to have discussions with on approaches to retrofitting traditional and listed buildings.
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Question reference: S6W-22418
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 25 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 8 November 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what proportion of the housing stock in each local authority area is comprised of homes within traditional buildings.
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Question reference: S6W-22237
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 13 October 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi Gougeon on 31 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has undertaken of the potential use of licensed itinerant slaughterers in island communities to slaughter livestock on farms, in order to compensate for a reported lack of available abattoir facilities.
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Question reference: S6W-21910
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 September 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 30 October 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an updated implementation timetable for the Vulnerable Witnesses (Criminal Evidence) (Scotland) Act 2019.
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