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-07472
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 1 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it has introduced a mechanism to ensure that the Resilience Division incorporates assessment of varying climate change risk.
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Question reference: S6W-07482
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 1 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it takes account of the length of roads for which a local authority is responsible for maintaining when allocating funding to local authorities for flood risk management.
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Question reference: S6W-07474
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 1 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it conducts a civil resilience planning exercise for an extreme rainfall event in a major urban area, incorporating the response to significant infrastructure failure.
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Question reference: S6W-07476
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 1 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether NHS Scotland has identified any assets included in the high or significant risk maintenance backlog, which are also at risk of flooding or have structural features that may be particularly vulnerable to heavy rainfall, and has then used this information to ensure that such assets are suitably prioritised in NHS capital spending decisions.
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Question reference: S6W-07471
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Mairi McAllan on 1 April 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Environment and Forestry Directorate supports and funds an ongoing programme of research to specifically identify and monitor any risks associated with extreme sub-daily rainfall in urban areas.
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Question reference: S6W-07446
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will introduce an independent residential park evaluation and grading system to prevent park owners from rating their own sites.
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Question reference: S6W-07445
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will introduce legislation establishing an arbitration service at local authority level for residential park owners.
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Question reference: S6W-07447
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 31 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will introduce legislation to sanction residential park owners who do not supply timely and fully completed written statements to their residents.
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Question reference: S6W-07311
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 24 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will confirm if massage and complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) services are included in the definition of independent commercial wellness services, for the purposes of determining eligibility criteria for close contact business support grants.
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Question reference: S6W-07444
- Asked by: Alexander Burnett, MSP for Aberdeenshire West, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
- Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 24 March 2022
To ask the Scottish Government, following disruptions to the energy supply as a result of recent storms, what discussions it has had with Ofgen regarding whether residents of residential park homes will be (a) included on the priority contact list and (b) allowed access to any compensation schemes in the event of environmental emergencies in light of recent reports that park owners did not fulfil these obligations on behalf of their residents.