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-08446
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 13 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what the estimated income is from non-domestic rates for shootings and deer forests in 2017.
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Question reference: S5W-08447
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 13 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many shooting and deer forest subjects will be on the valuation roll, and whether this is the same as the number of holdings it has registered.
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Question reference: S5W-08444
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 13 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to comments made at the meeting of the Rural Affairs, Climate Change and Environment Committee on 3 February 2016, when it will provide information to the Rural Economy and Connectivity Committee on the emerging valuations for sporting rates.
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Question reference: S5W-08445
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 28 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Derek Mackay on 13 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what the costs are of the collection of sporting rates.
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Question reference: S5W-08495
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 29 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 13 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how many accidents involving Scottish Ambulance Service vehicles there have been in the Highlands and Islands region in the last six months, and how long the crews involved had been on shift prior to the accident occurring.
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Question reference: S5W-08375
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Thursday, 23 March 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 10 April 2017
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S5W-07527 by Fergus Ewing on 14 March 2017, on what date it received the information from the UK Government regarding the Digital Economy Bill.
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Question reference: S5O-00800
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 15 March 2017
- Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 22 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government how it encourages volunteering in communities.
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Question reference: S5W-07527
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Friday, 24 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 14 March 2017
To ask the Scottish Government when it received information relating to the Digital Economy Bill from the UK Government to allow it to bring forward a legislative consent memorandum.
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Question reference: S5W-07167
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 February 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Roseanna Cunningham on 22 February 2017
To ask the Scottish Government what the cost of wild fisheries review process has been, also broken down by (a) staffing, (b) meeting, (c) publication and publicity, (d) travel and (e) other costs each year.
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Question reference: S5O-00598
- Asked by: Edward Mountain, MSP for Highlands and Islands, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 January 2017
- Current Status: Answered by Shona Robison on 25 January 2017
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will build a new hospital in Aviemore if the St Vincent's and Ian Charles hospitals are closed.