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: S5W-01927
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 12 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 1 September 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-01111 by Humza Yousaf on 26 July 2016 and in light of Audit Scotland's report, Maintaining Scotland's roads: a follow-up report, which ranked Dumfries and Galloway second among local authorities for the percentage of roads deemed unacceptable, what steps it will take to liaise with the council to bring roads up to standard and whether it would consider providing additional ring-fenced funding for this.
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Question reference: S5W-01848
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 09 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 29 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to encourage further investment in the Carstairs Junction area to accommodate the service demand until 2043 that was forecast by Network Rail in its report, Scotland Route Study.
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Question reference: S5W-01889
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 August 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 23 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on encouraging rail operators to give peak-time discounts to students who are 16-25 Railcard holders when travelling (a) for educational purposes and (b) to their part time employment.
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Question reference: S5W-01382
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Monday, 11 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Angela Constance on 3 August 2016
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-01000 by Angela Constance on 8 July 2016, whether it will undertake a review of whether it should assess how public authorities meet their obligations to make reasonable adjustments for disabled employees and service users.
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Question reference: S5W-01328
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 08 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 29 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government how many people resident in Scotland have received healthcare from the NHS in England in each of the last five years.
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Question reference: S5W-01148
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 29 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what analysis it has carried out of the impact that land reform could have on the establishment of productive woodland in forests.
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Question reference: S5W-01147
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 27 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what its plans are regarding (a) forestry policy, (b) forest enterprise and (c) the administration of trans-border forestry issues, including plant health and forest research.
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Question reference: S5W-01150
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 27 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on reviewing the time and cost of applying for an environmental impact assessment for landowners planting commercial woodland.
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Question reference: S5W-01151
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 27 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether the Cabinet Secretary for Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform and the Cabinet Secretary for Rural Economy and Connectivity have met or plan to meet to discuss the forestry and wood processing sector.
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Question reference: S5W-01146
- Asked by: Oliver Mundell, MSP for Dumfriesshire, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 01 July 2016
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 27 July 2016
To ask the Scottish Government whether it plans to (a) increase the role of and (b) give more powers to Forestry Commission Scotland and, if so, in what timescale.