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: S5W-15094
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 06 March 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 15 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on implementing a consent-based sharing model to enable citizens to control, manage and share their own data.
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Question reference: S5O-01852
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 28 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 8 March 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how out-of-hours GP cover is being delivered across Dumfries and Galloway.
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Question reference: S5W-14500
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 08 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 22 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how many health and safety breaches were recorded in each Forestry Commission Scotland region between January and March 2017, broken down by grade of incident, and whether those found responsible for such breaches must disclose this when taking part in future procurement exercises.
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Question reference: S5W-14369
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 22 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether high-speed broadband providers should have the same wayleave rights as other utility providers.
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Question reference: S5W-14336
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 21 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what measures it is taking to ensure that the R100 procurement process focuses on (a) intervening in the most hard-to-reach areas and (b) working with the commercial market to incentivise deployment in urban and semi-urban areas.
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Question reference: S5W-14335
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 21 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that any barriers to private investment in broadband deployment are reduced, and how it is engaging with (a) local authorities and (b) private sector providers with regard to this.
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Question reference: S5W-14368
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 05 February 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 20 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on whether high-speed broadband should be considered to be a basic utility.
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Question reference: S5W-14042
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 8 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made or plans of levels of loneliness and social isolation in rural areas.
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Question reference: S5W-14043
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 24 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 5 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government how it is addressing loneliness and social isolation in rural areas.
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Question reference: S5W-13962
- Asked by: Finlay Carson, MSP for Galloway and West Dumfries, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 19 January 2018
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 1 February 2018
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-13566 by Kevin Stewart on 10 January 2018, whether registered social landlords can impose factoring fees on private householders in a shared mixed private/tenanted block for (a) the provision of bad debt write-offs, (b) marketing and (c) office rent, rates or utilities and, if so, under what legislation.