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.
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To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-16134 by Patrick Harvie on 28 March 2023, what specific delivery programmes and support are available to help people to move immediately to zero or low emissions heating systems, in the event there is a sudden unexpected failure of a fossil fuel boiler, and what the (a) average and (b) shortest time was in (i) 2020-21, (ii) 2021-22 and (iii) 2022-23 between initial inquiries or applications being made and financial support being provided through each of these schemes.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether it can request that Circularity Scotland voluntarily responds to any requests for information regarding the company's role in the operation of the Deposit Return Scheme in line with the principles of Freedom of Information legislation.
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether the arrangement whereby the Deposit Return Scheme administrator is not subject to Freedom of Information legislation currently meets the principles of the Council of Europe Convention on Access to Official Documents.
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of any potential impact on relations between the Deposit Return Scheme administrator and producers where Circularity Scotland is not subject to Freedom of Information legislation.
To ask the Scottish Government for what reasons Circularity Scotland was not established using a similar model to Crown Estate Scotland and Scottish Water.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will ensure that Circularity Scotland is subject to any forthcoming legislation on Freedom of Information in Scotland.
To ask the Scottish Government which minister decided that Circularity Scotland, as scheme administrator of the Deposit Return Scheme, would not be subject to Freedom of Information legislation, and on what date this decision was taken.
To ask the Scottish Government what additional support will be made available to support the construction of social housing when the Scottish equivalent to the Passivhaus standard is introduced.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it considered any other options for the Deposit Return Scheme administrator, which would have been subject to Freedom of Information legislation.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6T-01276 by Lorna Slater on 21 March 2023 and in relation to her comment that Circularity Scotland “does not provide a public service”, on what evidentiary basis it determined this to be the case, in light of the statement on the Circularity Scotland website that it is a “company created to benefit everyone in Scotland”.