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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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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 9 July 2025
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Question reference: S6W-07266

  • Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 March 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 29 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many Scottish Welfare Fund Crisis Grants have been provided by local authorities in each year since their introduction.

Question reference: S6W-07126

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 March 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 29 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, regarding its estimates as set out in the Deposit Return Scheme for Scotland Final Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA), published in December 2021, and as contained in Annex F: Industry Assumptions, whether specific allowance is made for the additional costs of approximately 3,000 Reverse Vending Machines (RVM), as referred to in table 2 on page 19 of the same document, and, if this is not the case, what its position is on whether the 2021 BRIA is defective.

Question reference: S6W-07130

  • Asked by: Fergus Ewing, MSP for Inverness and Nairn, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 14 March 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 29 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, regarding its proposed Deposit Return Scheme, whether it will provide the detailed calculations for how each of the figures were arrived at as set out in Table 3 on page (a) 15 of A Deposit Return Scheme for Scotland: Full Business and Regulatory Impact, published in July 2019 and (b) 20 of the Deposit Return Scheme for Scotland Final Business and Regulatory Impact Assessment (BRIA), published in December 2021, in particular in relation to the (i) costs and (ii) benefits for (A) local authorities, (B) business, (C) the regulator, (D) the system operator and (E) society.

Question reference: S6W-07459

  • Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Patrick Harvie on 29 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how many fuel poor households it estimates have not qualified for the Warmer Homes Scotland scheme based on issues with the scheme’s qualifying criteria, as identified in its 2021 Fuel Poverty Strategy.

Question reference: S6W-07423

  • Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 29 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether it has plans to include an options appraisal of how existing incinerators could be decarbonised, in the upcoming independent review on the role of incineration in the waste hierarchy, which is due to be published by Easter 2022.

Question reference: S6W-07467

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government how much it has paid private contractors to recruit Test and Protect staff.

Question reference: S6W-07468

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government what the total number of Test and Protect testing centres was on 1 March 2022, and how many will remain operational from 1 May 2022.

Question reference: S6W-07460

  • Asked by: Liam McArthur, MSP for Orkney Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
  • Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Matheson on 29 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government, further to the aim in its 2021 Fuel Poverty Strategy to ensure that “all homes across Scotland will have achieved the equivalent of an Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) C” by 2033, how it plans to make the estimated investment of up to £6 billion that is required to deliver EPC C ratings to all fuel poor households in Scotland.

Question reference: S6W-07422

  • Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 18 March 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Lorna Slater on 29 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether the Operational Assessment of Alternative Residual Waste Treatment Technologies report will be considered in the independent review on the role of incineration in the waste hierarchy, which is due to be published by Easter 2022.

Question reference: S6W-07286

  • Asked by: Miles Briggs, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 14 March 2022
  • Current Status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 29 March 2022

To ask the Scottish Government whether parking for (a) staff and (b) customers at retail outlets is included in the Workplace Parking Levy.