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-02174
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 7 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide a breakdown of how much public funding has been spent on clean-up and decommissioning work in relation to incinerator plant closures in the last 10 years.
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Question reference: S6W-02161
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 7 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on progress on the implementation of an electronic system for recording waste data, as outlined in its publication, Making Things Last: A Circular Economy Strategy for Scotland, which stated that “We will move towards making the use of the electronic 'edoc' system mandatory for waste in Scotland and will consider inclusion of transfrontier shipment of waste (particularly in view of the EU Circular Economy package aspirations for electronic data exchange) and hazardous waste.”
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Question reference: S6W-02160
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 7 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether Zero Waste Scotland had an impact target of Scotland achieving a household waste recycling rate of at least 60% by 2020, which was agreed by the Scottish Government in 2016.
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Question reference: S6W-02432
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 23 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 7 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what risk assessment it has carried out regarding the potential impact on recycling rates of charging for garden waste collection.
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Question reference: S6W-02171
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 6 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had regarding introducing a tax on waste incineration services.
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Question reference: S6W-02177
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Graeme Dey on 6 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-01363 by Graeme Dey on 6 August 2021, whether it will provide a more precise date by which it will publish the route map for meeting its target to reduce car use.
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Question reference: S6W-02272
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 6 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the response to question S5W-32957 by Roseanna Cunningham on 16 November 2020, whether it has since updated the research on the financial impact of littering.
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Question reference: S6W-02169
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 1 September 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had regarding using Scottish Landfill Tax to incentivise biostabilisation of waste.
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Question reference: S6W-02165
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 31 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether the forthcoming review of the role of incineration will examine issues beyond waste management such as potential impacts on (a) health, (b) local communities and (c) local authority finances.
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Question reference: S6W-02167
- Asked by: Maurice Golden, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 11 August 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 31 August 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how long the forthcoming review of the role of incineration is anticipated to last, and what the estimated timeframe is for it to publish its findings.
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