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: S6W-10161
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 30 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to the question S6W-09432 by Lorna Slater on 28 July 2022, for what reason the contract (a) with Biffa was not signed by March 2022 and (b) for IT services has still not been signed, and when it anticipates that the contract for IT services will be finalised.
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Question reference: S6W-10162
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 30 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it can provide a breakdown by local authority of the Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) return points rolled out by retailers.
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Question reference: S6W-09987
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 23 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-31924 by Roseanna Cunningham on 2 October 2020, whether it will provide an update on the value of turnover that the reuse economy in Scotland has; how many jobs it supports, and what tonnage of material it enables to be reused annually.
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Question reference: S6W-09891
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 18 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many GP practices were (a) permanently and (b) temporarily closed to new patients in each of the last five years, broken down by NHS board area.
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Question reference: S6W-09986
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 26 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 18 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-09439 by Lorna Slater on 21 July 2022, which local authorities with residual waste treatment arrangements in place beyond 2025 compliant with the forthcoming ban on sending biodegradable municipal waste to landfill have (a) long-term/permanent and (b) interim arrangements in place, and how long any interim arrangements extend for.
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Question reference: S6W-09887
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ash Regan on 17 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many prisoners have been classed as unlawfully at large in each month since January 2020.
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Question reference: S6W-09884
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 17 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide details of any underspend in capital projects over the financial year 2021-22, broken down by project and the reason for any underspend in each case.
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Question reference: S6W-09869
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 17 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-01360 by Graeme Dey on 16 August 2021, whether it will provide an update on what proportion of (a) its and (b) each of its agencies' vehicle fleet is comprised of zero-emission vehicles, also broken down by what information it has for other public bodies.
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Question reference: S6W-09877
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 17 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will request that SEPA conducts a review of fire safety measures at waste handling facilities, in light of the major fire at the Suez Recycling and Recovery plant in Altens.
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Question reference: S6W-09870
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 21 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 16 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what estimate it has made of the amount of greenhouse gas emissions from the incineration of fossil carbon that (a) were emitted from 2007 to 2021 and (b) will be emitted from 2022 to 2024.