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-09886
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 5 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on hospitality in each year since 2020, broken down by directorate.
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Question reference: S6W-09892
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 2 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many individuals have been monitored electronically in each year since 2016, broken down by local authority area .
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Question reference: S6W-09883
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 29 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many air quality management areas (a) there have been and (b) have been revoked after air quality standards improved, in each year since 2016.
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Question reference: S6W-09432
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 28 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-07791 by Lorna Slater on 3 May 2022, whether it will provide an update on the status of the discussions, and when it anticipates contracts will be signed.
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Question reference: S6W-09893
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by George Adam on 26 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many written parliamentary questions were answered (a) within and (b) after the due date, in each month since July 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-09274
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 21 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown by local authority of (a) direct Scottish Government funding from the Nature Restoration Fund, (b) all project applications made to the Fund, (c) the projects that received money from the Fund and (d) the value of each award.
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Question reference: S6W-09253
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 21 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-08785 by Lorna Slater on 10 June 2022, whether it will provide a breakdown of all of the individual meetings that it has had with small brewers to discuss its Deposit Return Scheme since 21 July 2021.
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Question reference: S6W-09477
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 21 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of the root causes behind the reported lack of significant progress in increasing Scotland’s household recycling rate relative to 2011, and, if no such breakdown exists, whether it will provide details of the steps that it is taking to conduct such an assessment.
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Question reference: S6W-09440
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 21 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on intervening to end lock-ins for local authority incineration contracts in order to support the development of a declining cap on incineration capacity.
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Question reference: S6W-09439
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 June 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 21 July 2022
To ask the Scottish Government which local authorities have settled residual waste treatment options, broken down by (a) what those options are and (b) the length of any lock-in conditions, and which local authorities have no settled options.
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