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.
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To ask the Scottish Government what Scottish Water’s end-of-year cash balance has been at the end of each of the last 10 financial years, broken down by funds attributable to (a) the Scottish Water Group and (b) Scottish Water itself.
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding has been transferred by Scottish Water to Business Stream with no requirement for repayment in each of the last three financial years.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consider extending the Fair Fares review to include the Aberdeen-Inverness train line, in light of the public ownership of ScotRail and in order to tackle congestion on the A96 and reduce carbon emissions.
To ask the Scottish Government how many people have been diagnosed with an eating disorder in each year since 1999.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of Scottish Water setting customer charges at 4.2% for the current financial year, by how much above the Consumer Prices Index would charges need to rise in each year for the remainder of the regulatory period in order to meet the minimum income expectation of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland by the end of the current regulatory period.
To ask the Scottish Government what accounting provision Scottish Water has made for bad debt in each of the last 10 financial years.
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to bring forward a Public Debt Bill.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will allocate any funding specifically for alcohol services, in addition to that allocated to Alcohol and Drug Partnerships for drugs services.
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to improve the consistency and reliability of data on delivery and funding of Frank’s Law across all local authorities.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-08428 by Ben Macpherson on 19 May 2022, whether it can provide an estimate of the number of children and young people in the East Kilbride constituency who are (a) eligible for and (b) forecast to receive payments for the (i) Scottish Child Payment and (ii) Best Start Grant.