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: S5W-22198
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 29 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made or will make of the reasons why a significant proportion of disability living allowance recipients who have been re-assessed for personal independence payment have reportedly had their benefit disallowed or decreased.
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Question reference: S5W-22196
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 29 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what it considers constitutes "other circumstances" in which a face-to-face assessment for disability assistance for working age people is required.
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Question reference: S5W-22200
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 22 March 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Shirley-Anne Somerville on 29 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government how it will assist recipients of each form of disability assistance in reporting any increase in support needs.
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Question reference: S5W-22179
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 14 March 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 26 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-21874 by Rosanna Cunningham on 12 March 2019, on what date it expects the (a) Joint Nature Conservation Committee report to be published and (b) the UK report to be submitted to the European Commission, and, if the UK report is not submitted to the commission because of Brexit, whether it will independently publish the Scottish National Heritage contribution to it.
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Question reference: S5F-03204
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 25 March 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 28 March 2019
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5O-03066
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 March 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 27 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what input disabled people, disabled persons' organisations and other stakeholders will have into the design of the assessment descriptors for disability assistance for working-age people.
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Question reference: S5W-21874
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 12 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment (a) it and (b) Scottish Natural Heritage has produced regarding the conservation status of mountain hares, and whether it will publish this.
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Question reference: S5W-21873
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 28 February 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 12 March 2019
To ask the Scottish Government when it last reported to the European Commission on the conservation status of mountain hares; when this report will be published, and on what data it was based.
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Question reference: S5F-03118
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 04 March 2019
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 March 2019
Question to be taken in Chamber.
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Question reference: S5W-21364
- Asked by: Alison Johnstone, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 31 January 2019
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 28 February 2019
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on enhancing consumer protection by the regulation of trades in which safety is a key issue.