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-10210
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 5 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any schemes in place to reduce the number of seagulls, particularly herring gulls, nesting in residential areas.
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Question reference: S6O-01329
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 August 2022
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 7 September 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has done on the potential impact on the sale price of new homes of its proposal to introduce new building standards to prohibit the use of direct emissions heating systems in new builds from 2024.
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Question reference: S6W-10174
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 31 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-08116 by Jenny Gilruth on 6 May 2022, whether it will provide an update on whether the "rail improvement project" referred to has now concluded option selection, and, if so, what options have been selected.
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Question reference: S6W-10211
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 31 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has any plans to change the law regarding the protection of seagulls, including in particular herring gulls.
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Question reference: S6W-10205
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 30 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the percentage terms difference between the running costs of heat pumps compared with those of a gas boiler, including what that would mean in cash terms as of August 2022, in light of its proposal to prohibit the use of direct emissions heating systems, such as those run on fossil fuel, in new buildings from 2024.
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Question reference: S6W-10206
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 08 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 30 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what information it has on the number of people in Scotland accredited to install and maintain heat pumps (a) at present and (b) that would be required from 2024, should its proposals on prohibiting the use of direct emissions heating systems, such as those that run on fossil fuel, in new buildings from 2024 come into force.
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Question reference: S6W-10030
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 27 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jamie Hepburn on 25 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what it is doing to ensure that the transition to renewables is "managed" to ensure that it is in the "Goldilocks zone", as referred to in the Robert Gordon University report, Making the Switch: The future shape of the offshore energy workforce in the North-East of Scotland.
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Question reference: S6W-10094
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 29 July 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 25 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to reduce any impact on patients and communities from the reported number of unscheduled closures of community pharmacies in NHS (a) Grampian and (b) Tayside.
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Question reference: S6W-10118
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 25 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many public electric vehicle (EV) charging points were installed in the North East region between
1 June 2021 and 31 May 2022, broken down by Scottish Parliament constituency.
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Question reference: S6W-10119
- Asked by: Liam Kerr, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 01 August 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 25 August 2022
To ask the Scottish Government how many homes have benefitted from the Social Housing Net Zero Heat Fund as of 30 July 2022, and what the average cost per property is.