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-05322
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 27 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comments by the Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise, during his ministerial statement on 15 December 2021 on Dalzell Historical Industrial Transactions, that “there is no liability to the Scottish Government”, for what reason it has redacted this information in its responses to freedom of information requests.
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Question reference: S6W-05306
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 27 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government on what date and at what time it contacted Tata Steel after identifying that it may have broken state aid rules while facilitating the sale of the Dalzell steelworks, and whether it will publish any (a) notification and (b) response.
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Question reference: S6W-05314
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 27 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the typical environmental remediation costs for sites of former steelworks such as Ravenscraig; what sites it has considered in this regard, and whether it has calculated historic costs adjusted for inflation.
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Question reference: S6W-05316
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 27 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the ministerial statement by the Minister for Business, Trade, Tourism and Enterprise on 15 December 2021 on Dalzell Historical Industrial Transactions, what parties comprise the "wider group" that he referred to.
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Question reference: S6W-05307
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 27 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to Tata Steel’s reported statement on 15 December 2021 that the contract it holds with the Scottish Government in relation to the Dalzell steelworks is “valid and binding in all aspects”.
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Question reference: S6W-05325
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 27 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether (a) it and (b) Tata Steel has any claim to the land upon which the Dalzell steelworks are situated in the event that Liberty House decides to close the site for reasons other than it ceasing to exist.
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Question reference: S6W-05319
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 27 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason the previous owners, Tata Steel, have liabilities in relation to the environmental remediation costs for the site of the Dalzell steelworks, and whether this is typical for the owners of similar former sites.
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Question reference: S6W-05310
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 27 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government for how long precisely it owned the Dalzell steelworks in 2016.
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Question reference: S6W-05312
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Thursday, 13 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 27 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether Tata Steel provided it with an estimate of the cost of the total potential environmental remediation cost of the Dalzell steelworks upon purchasing the site in 2016.
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Question reference: S6W-05437
- Asked by: Willie Rennie, MSP for North East Fife, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 05 January 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 25 January 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the debate on motion S6M-02625 (A New Deal for Tenants), how it plans to increase its ambitions for the building of more homes for social rent, and on what date any increased ambition will be announced.
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