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-06407
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Keith Brown on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-06157 by Keith Brown on 7 February 2022, what statistics the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Housing and Property Chamber) routinely publishes; what statistics it is required to publish, and whether it will review the transparency and reporting duties on the tribunal.
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Question reference: S6W-06399
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 10 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many properties supported through the Open Market Shared Equity scheme it (a) has taken and (b) retains a “golden share” in, broken down by local authority area.
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Question reference: S6W-06964
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 8 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the publication, Planning circular 01/2021: Establishing a Short-term Let Control Area, which is described as being out of date until a new version is made available in Spring 2022, what impact this will have on the (a) control area designation process by local authorities and (b) approval of designation applications by Scottish Ministers.
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Question reference: S6W-06962
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Tuesday, 01 March 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 8 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what its process and timeline is for considering whether to approve the City of Edinburgh Council short-term let control area designation.
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Question reference: S6W-06917
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Friday, 25 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 8 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has begun assessing the additional resourcing and skills requirements of the Fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4), and when it will prepare a strategy to address these requirements.
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Question reference: S6W-06766
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
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Date lodged: Thursday, 24 February 2022
Submitting member has a registered interest.
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 4 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how it regulates the build-to-rent sector.
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Question reference: S6W-06600
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Neil Gray on 4 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many COVID-19 vaccines it has shared with its partner international development countries, including Rwanda, Malawi and Zambia.
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Question reference: S6W-06278
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maggie Chapman (On behalf of the SPCB) on 3 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body what the reasons are for the delays in processing written questions.
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Question reference: S6W-06279
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 03 February 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Maggie Chapman (On behalf of the SPCB) on 3 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body (a) how many and (b) what proportion of written questions were processed within (i) 0 to 1 (ii) 2 to 3 (iii) 4 to 5 and (iv) 6 or more days after being lodged, in each week since May 2021.
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Question reference: S6O-00843
- Asked by: Mark Griffin, MSP for Central Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 March 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 10 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what work it has undertaken with its partners, and funding it has identified, to accommodate refugees from Ukraine.