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-00332
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Ivan McKee on 11 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has carried out of business debt that has arisen because of the COVID-19 restrictions, and what action it has carried out or plans to support businesses that have experienced financial difficulties as a result of the pandemic.
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Question reference: S6W-00330
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 June 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 11 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many young people have taken up the offer of a place on the Young Person’s Guarantee, also broken down by how many placements were for (a) apprenticeships, (b) employment, (c) participating in formal volunteering programmes, (d) training and (e) university or college.
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Question reference: S6W-00268
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 May 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 11 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that historical links to slavery are properly displayed on statues of slave owners or slavery profiteers around Edinburgh and Scotland, and whether it plans to take further action to acknowledge and highlight Scotland's role in the slave trade, to ensure that it is part of the national conversation.
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Question reference: S6O-00039
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 June 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what support and assistance it is offering to the organisers of this summer's Edinburgh festivals.
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Question reference: S6W-00128
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 May 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 7 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, following its decision to extend the 100% business rates relief for retail, hospitality and leisure firms for the whole of 2021-22, what savings will be made, broken down by industry sector.
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Question reference: S6W-00124
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 May 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 7 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many properties in each local authority area are subject to the (a) basic, (b) intermediate and (c) higher property rate poundage, broken down by industry sector, and how much will be raised from each of the three bands in the current financial year, broken down by local authority area.
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Question reference: S6W-00127
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 May 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 3 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to encourage local authorities to use their powers under the Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015 to vary business rates, and which local authorities have used these powers since 2015, broken down by year.
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Question reference: S6W-00125
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 May 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 3 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the Scottish National Party's manifesto commitment, whether it will set out further details of its proposal to bring the higher property rate for non-domestic tax rates in Scotland in line with that in England.
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Question reference: S6W-00126
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 20 May 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 3 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how much of tje revenue raised by the business rates incentivisation scheme has been retained by each local authority since its inception, broken down by year.
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Question reference: S6O-00001
- Asked by: Daniel Johnson, MSP for Edinburgh Southern, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 02 June 2021
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 9 June 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to provide support with the phasing out of gas-fired boilers in homes.
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