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-16246
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 24 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government when it anticipates the first private finance investment pilot, focused on the Borders Forest Trust "Wild Heart" project in southern Scotland and expected to begin in spring 2023, will conclude, and how much funding it will provide to fund this pilot.
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Question reference: S6W-16250
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 24 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what work it has done to analyse the accuracy of the statistic regarding a £20 billion finance gap for nature in Scotland, as used in the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy to 2045: Tackling the Nature Emergency in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-16249
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 24 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it was able to determine that £2 billion in funding could be leveraged from the private finance investment pilot that was announced on 1 March 2023 on the NatureScot website.
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Question reference: S6W-16202
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Gillian Martin on 24 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what information it holds on what the average contract for difference (CfD) price is for an operating (a) offshore and (b) onshore wind farm in Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-16247
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 24 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what commercial benefits it anticipates that financial partners, including Hampden & Co and Lombard Odier Investment Managers, will receive as part of the private finance investment pilot to mobilise £2 billion in landscape scale restoration of native woodland.
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Question reference: S6W-16248
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 24 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what work was carried out to determine that a Memorandum of Understanding with financial partners, as announced on 1 March 2023 on the NatureScot website, was the best vehicle for increasing private funding in nature projects, and what alternative approaches were considered and ruled out.
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Question reference: S6W-16251
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 27 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 19 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will undertake a review of the Scottish Biodiversity Strategy to 2045: Tackling the Nature Emergency in Scotland, in light of the new assessment report by the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), and, if so, when it anticipates any such work will take place.
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Question reference: S6W-16279
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 19 April 2023
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Question reference: S6W-16278
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 03 April 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 19 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what the timetabled dwell time at (a) Usan and (b) Montrose junction (signals MN39 and MN5) is, and on how many occasions in the last 24 months the dwell time has been exceeded to the extent that trains were officially "delayed" on this section of the railway.
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Question reference: S6W-16621
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 31 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 14 April 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much it has spent on what it classifies as "maintenance and safety schemes" on each of Scotland's A roads in each year since 2007, also broken down by individual A road.