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, regarding its Heat in Buildings Strategy, where it anticipates the £31 billion difference, between the £33 billion cost of the project and its £1.8 billion contribution, will come from.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of air source heat pumps reportedly running at significantly cooler temperatures than gas boilers, what it recommends (a) older and (b) all homeowners do to maintain their heating at a gas boiler temperature level.
To ask the Scottish Government, in light of the developments regarding Aberdeenshire Council’s reported objection to the A90/A937 Laurencekirk Junction Improvement Scheme, what the updated timeline is to (a) start and (b) complete the work.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S6W-02357 and S6W-03041 by Graeme Dey on 13 September and 1 October 2021 respectively, whether it will provide the information requested and confirm whether fully electrifying the East Coast Main Line between Edinburgh Haymarket and Aberdeen (a) is or (b) is not required for it to achieve its ambition to decarbonise Scotland's Railway; for what reason it did not provide this information in its previous two responses, and, if it does not know the answer at this stage, whether it will confirm that.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comment by the Minister for Energy, Connectivity and the Islands during his ministerial statement on 11 February 2021 that a "hydrogen action plan...is due for publication in 2021", by what date in 2021 it plans to publish this.
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to introduce an initiative similar to the Heat Network Efficiency Scheme Demonstrator that has been introduced by UK Government and, if so, by what date.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the comment by the Minister for Transport on 23 September 2021 that there is a plan in place to provide 30,000 electric vehicle charge points by 2030, which is “evolving”, how many (a) electric vehicle (EV), (b) diesel and (c) petrol cars it projects will be in use by 2030; how frequently the plan projects the EVs will be charged, based on annual mileage; how many EVs it is notionally allocating per charging point; where the (i) private and (ii) public charging points will be located, and how much electricity it projects will required to be generated to service the charging points.
To ask the Scottish Government how much revenue it has raised from properties subject to the Higher Property Rate poundage for non-domestic rates in each local authority area in the North East Scotland region in each of the last five years, also broken down by industry sector.
To ask the Scottish Government how many properties in each local authority area in the North East Scotland region are subject to the Higher Property Rate poundage for non-domestic rates, also broken down by industry sector.
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S6W-02678 to S6W-02684 and S6W-02686 by Richard Lochhead on 22 September 2021, how many "good, green jobs" it expects will be created; in what fields; by when, and what it defines as (a) "good" and (b) "green" jobs.