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-27623
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 10 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how often its (a) directorates and (b) agencies are required to update their asset management plans.
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Question reference: S5W-27627
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Ben Macpherson on 10 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government which organisations ministers have met since November 2019 to discuss the Non-Domestic Rates (Scotland) Bill.
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Question reference: S5W-27625
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kate Forbes on 10 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what plans it has to update its January 2008 asset management review.
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Question reference: S5W-27633
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 9 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what additional funding will be made available for local authorities to enable them to process applications for short-term let licences following the introduction of a licensing scheme.
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Question reference: S5W-27632
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 9 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish details of the proposed licensing scheme for short-term lets.
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Question reference: S5W-27629
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 4 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what efforts it is making to ensure that tenants in the private-rented sector are made aware of the procedure that landlords must follow to commence eviction, including the function and rules of the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Housing and Property Chamber).
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Question reference: S5W-27630
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Wednesday, 26 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Kevin Stewart on 4 March 2020
To ask the Scottish Government what its response is to figures in The Juridical Review, which record a 95% tenant eviction rate by the First-tier Tribunal for Scotland (Housing and Property Chamber).
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Question reference: S5W-27373
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 February 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many discretionary reporting restrictions, which are not mandated by statute, have been placed on criminal proceedings in courts in the last five years.
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Question reference: S5W-27372
- Asked by: Andy Wightman, MSP for Lothian, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: Tuesday, 18 February 2020
- Current Status: Answered by Humza Yousaf on 27 February 2020
To ask the Scottish Government how many times a court has been closed to the public in the last five years, apart from those occasions where rules specifically require a court to sit in private, and for what reason.