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-15506
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide any analysis that it has undertaken in the last five years of the effectiveness of the (a) recruitment and (b) retention policies of NHS boards.
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Question reference: S6W-15509
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 16 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the importance of (a) medical and (b) non-medical staff in the NHS attending schools within the vicinity of their workplace to encourage local pupils to pursue a career in healthcare.
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Question reference: S6O-02037
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 March 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how it ensures that there is sufficient police presence throughout the north east.
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Question reference: S6W-14982
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 13 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has carried out any analysis of the potential impact of the Draft Energy Strategy and Just Transition Plan on oil and gas jobs in Aberdeen.
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Question reference: S6W-14983
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 13 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 10 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has carried out an impact assessment of its presumption against new oil fields on oil and gas jobs in Aberdeen, and, if so, on what date.
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Question reference: S6W-15512
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 9 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to the fourth National Planning Framework (NPF4), what its key (a) priorities and (b) deliverables are in its implementation; what its key outcomes are, and within what timeframe those outcomes must be delivered.
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Question reference: S6W-15504
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 02 March 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Tom Arthur on 9 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how the planning system (a) prioritises and (b) supports the (i) repowering and (ii) life extension of existing windfarms.
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Question reference: S6O-02023
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 08 March 2023
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 16 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to dual the A90 between Ellon and Peterhead.
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Question reference: S6W-14920
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 7 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-07074 by Richard Lochhead on 11 March 2022, which responded to reports that it has only delivered approximately one in 20 of the offshore wind jobs that it forecast, how (a) it has spent, and with what agencies and (b) much remains unallocated of the "£2 billion in low carbon funding to invest in new measures to end Scotland’s contribution to climate change and create green jobs"; what the results of its "Creating, supporting and monitoring green jobs" have been; what progress has been made in relation to the work that is "ongoing within the Scottish Government to establish a broader measure of green jobs", and whether it will provide an update on when the creation of "thousands of new jobs" that will be generated by the ScotWind programme will be realised.
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Question reference: S6W-14977
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 10 February 2023
- Current Status: Answered by Richard Lochhead on 7 March 2023
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it has allocated to support job retention during energy transition in Aberdeen, in each of the last five years.
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