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-22416
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 August 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 17 September 2014
To ask the Scottish Government on what date it will launch its consultation on regulations to set minimum energy efficiency standards for private sector houses.
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Question reference: S4W-22418
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 August 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 17 September 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what action it will take to ensure that rural homeowners who live off-grid will not be disadvantaged by any proposed minimum energy efficiency standards for private sector houses.
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Question reference: S4W-22417
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 August 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 17 September 2014
To ask the Scottish Government how it will enforce any regulations to set minimum energy efficiency standards for private sector houses.
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Question reference: S4W-22419
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 August 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Margaret Burgess on 17 September 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on how many (a) urban and (b) rural (i) on-grid and (ii) off-grid homes could be required to meet any proposed minimum energy efficiency standards for private sector houses.
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Question reference: S4W-22026
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 July 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 30 July 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement in the Empowering Scotland's Island Communities report that “Instead of trying to influence Westminster, island communities and authorities will have direct access to the Scottish Government and Scottish Parliament to scrutinise the impact of government policies on the islands and present their views”, whether it considers that Scottish island communities are without access to the UK Government.
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Question reference: S4W-22027
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 July 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 30 July 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement in the Empowering Scotland's Island Communities report that “the Scottish Parliament already has the power to vary the application of legislation by geographical area. The process of island-proofing would provide an opportunity to consider, on a case-by-case basis, whether this might apply to particular pieces of legislation”, which legislation passed since 2007 would have been altered had the policy of "island-proofing" already been in place, and how this would have been implemented.
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Question reference: S4W-22028
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 July 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 30 July 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what additional financial mechanisms it considers should be deployed to enable the delivery of island grid upgrades, and what steps it has taken to explore them.
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Question reference: S4W-22024
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 July 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 30 July 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement in the Empowering Scotland's Island Communities report that “ensuring island communities, like all communities, can fulfil their potential requires a fair allocation of resources”, what funding allocation model would be used to determine central government funding packages to local authorities.
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Question reference: S4W-22029
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 July 2014
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 28 July 2014
To ask the Scottish Government what modelling it has carried out on ticket prices on inter-island ferries in Orkney and Shetland should the Road Equivalent Tariff (RET) be applied.
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Question reference: S4W-22025
- Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 July 2014
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 28 July 2014
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the statement in the Empowering Scotland's Island Communities report that “the Scottish Government has committed to building a simpler system of taxation after independence”, whether the fuel duty derogation of 5p, implemented by the UK Treasury, would automatically be retained.