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-07785
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 28 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it is giving to excluding glass containers from its Deposit Return Scheme, in light of the reported announcement that glass will not be included in the schemes in England and Northern Ireland.
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Question reference: S6O-01040
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 April 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 4 May 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions the culture minister has had with the minister for zero carbon buildings regarding work to install energy efficiency measures in cultural and heritage buildings.
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Question reference: S6W-07648
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 26 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether its 2024 timescale for introducing a Natural Environment Bill provides sufficient prominence to the declared nature emergency, and whether it will bring this timescale forward.
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Question reference: S6W-07644
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 26 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether its high-level ambitions on nature, set out in its Programme for Government, Statement of Intent on Biodiversity, National Strategy for Economic Transformation and Draft National Planning Framework 4, that aim to tackle the nature and climate crises holistically, will be supported with new funding and delivery mechanisms in the Resource Spending Review.
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Question reference: S6W-07645
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 25 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how its Programme for Government commitment on delivering local nature networks will be delivered and resourced; what timeframes are associated with these, and how they will be coordinated with the National Planning Framework, new Scottish Biodiversity Strategy, Regional Land Use Partnerships and other inter-related policy areas.
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Question reference: S6O-01018
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 April 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many incidents of dog theft there have been in the last five years.
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Question reference: S6W-07551
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 20 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis has been carried out of the cost of introducing a digital deposit return scheme, following the launch of the proposed Deposit Return Scheme.
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Question reference: S6W-07552
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 20 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis has been carried out of the cost of retrofitting an expanded range of materials such as Tetrapak, following the launch of a Deposit Return Scheme.
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Question reference: S6W-07553
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 20 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to the inclusion of Tetrapak in the Deposit Return Scheme.
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Question reference: S6W-07786
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 April 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 19 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether every local authority it provided funding to for implementing Frank's Law in 2019 was advised by its officials that such funding was to be ring-fenced for the specific purpose of providing people aged under 65 with free personal care where there was an assessed need.
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