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-35703
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 18 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-30619 by Paul Wheelhouse on 8 October 2020, when it expects the Scottish Offshore Wind Energy Council to publish its independent review of the current status of the offshore wind supply chain.
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Question reference: S5W-36180
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Thursday, 11 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 18 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to testing school pupils without COVID-19 symptoms, and what its reasons are for its position on this matter.
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Question reference: S5O-05155
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 17 March 2021
- Current Status: Awaiting answer
To ask the Scottish Government what support it will provide for the regeneration of the city centre and beachfront in Aberdeen.
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Question reference: S5W-35702
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 17 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what steps it is taking to ensure that the ScotWind Leasing process does not allow offshore wind farm developers to drive risk and cost reduction down the supply chain.
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Question reference: S5W-35708
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 17 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will consult with communities over the use of funds that were paid to Crown Estate Scotland by developers of offshore wind farms through the ScotWind Leasing process.
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Question reference: S5W-35705
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 17 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what discussions it has had with operators of oil and gas production facilities in the North Sea, ahead of potential applications through the ScotWind Leasing process.
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Question reference: S5W-35700
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 16 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its estimate is of the energy generating potential at each of the fifteen plan options that are outlined in the Sectoral Marine Plan for Offshore Wind.
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Question reference: S5W-35430
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Monday, 22 February 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Jeane Freeman on 16 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government when it will provide a substantive answer to question (a) S5W-34138, (b) S5W-34139, (c) S5W-34140 and (d) S5W-34141, which received a holding response on 14 January 2021.
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Question reference: S5W-35710
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 12 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government how many jobs have been supported by the Ninian North decommissioning project, and whether it has discussed this site with Scottish Carbon Capture and Storage.
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Question reference: S5W-35704
- Asked by: Lewis Macdonald, MSP for North East Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 03 March 2021
- Current Status: Answered by Paul Wheelhouse on 12 March 2021
To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on an appropriate rate of return for shareholders in companies that are applying to lease offshore wind farm sites through the ScotWind process.