Dr Scott Arthur

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Public Sector: Publicity

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, whether she has plans to make changes to the rules on public notices for small online news publishers.

27 Mar 2025 · Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Local Press

To ask the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, what steps she is taking to support local independent journalism.

24 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Income Tax: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, is he will make an estimate of the cost to the public purse of the Scottish Income Tax Mitigation scheme in each financial year between 2018-19 and 2024-25.

24 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many Service Family Accommodation units were available in Scotland between 2010 and 2014; and how many and what proportion of those were reported to have (a) black mould and (b) damp in the same period.

24 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, with reference to the press notice entitled Awaab’s Law to force landlords to fix dangerous homes, published 6 February 2025, if he will take steps to extend Awaab's law to include all Service Family Accommodatio

24 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the extent of any black mould problem in service family accommodation in Scotland.

24 Mar 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Armed Forces: Housing

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of service family accommodation in Scotland.

12 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Industry

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of staff cuts at Dundee University on the industrial strategy.

12 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Economic Growth

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of staff cuts at Dundee University on economic growth.

12 Mar 2025 · Scotland Office

University of Dundee: Redundancy

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland, whether he has made an assessment of the potential impact of Dundee University's plan to cut staffing by 20% on the Tay Cities Deal.

10 Mar 2025 · Department of Health and Social Care

Long Covid

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps he is taking to support people with long covid; and what steps he is taking to increase awareness of the impacts of long covid.

7 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Industry: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, if he will make an assessment of the potential impact of the Scottish Government's National innovation strategy 2023 to 2033 on his industrial strategy.

7 Mar 2025 · Department for Business and Trade

Industry: Scotland

To ask the Secretary of State for Business and Trade, whether he has had discussions with Scottish universities on the development of an industrial strategy.

7 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the support provided by (a) his Department and (b) energy suppliers for people with chronic ill health for the cost of energy.

7 Mar 2025 · Department for Energy Security and Net Zero

Energy: Prices

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero, if he will make an assessment of the adequacy of the support provided by (a) his Department and (b) energy suppliers for vulnerable households for the cost of energy.

7 Mar 2025 · Treasury

Public Sector: Employers' Contributions

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she plans to provide additional funding to the Scottish Government for the cost of additional National Insurance contributions in the public sector from the 2025-26 financial year.

13 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Electric Vehicles: Batteries

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of implementing a standardised battery health certification scheme for second-hand electric vehicles.

11 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Rented Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking with the build to rent sector to increase the supply of housing.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Active Travel: Children

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she plans to create local walking and cycling networks to enable more children to stay active on the way to school.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Cycling: Women

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to tackle (a) harassment and (b) intimidation of women while cycling.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Active Travel

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on the potential impact of increased investment in active travel infrastructure on public health outcomes.

10 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Active Travel

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what discussions she has had with the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the potential economic merits of investment in active travel infrastructure.

10 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

Rented Housing: Construction

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps she is taking to support the Build to Rent sector.

10 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Stamp Duty Land Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential impact of scrapping Multiple Dwellings Relief on housing supply.

10 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Stamp Duty Land Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of reintroducing Multiple Dwellings Relief.

10 Feb 2025 · Treasury

Stamp Duty Land Tax

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether she has made an assessment of the impact of scrapping Multiple Dwellings Relief in March 2024 on the economy.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Education

Higher Education: Disadvantaged

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to widen access to higher education by underrepresented groups.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Transport

Taxis: Electric Vehicles

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential impact of the plug-in taxi grant on levels of uptake of purpose-built ultra-low emission taxis.

5 Feb 2025 · Ministry of Defence

Ministry of Defence: Edinburgh South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, how many homes his Department owns in Edinburgh South West constituency; and how many of those (a) have Ministry of Defence tenants, (b) have private tenants and (c) are vacant.

5 Feb 2025 · Department for Work and Pensions

Winter Fuel Payment: Edinburgh South West

To ask the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, how many households in Edinburgh South West constituency claimed the Winter Fuel Payment in (a) 2023-24 and (b) 2024-25; and how many of those were new claimants in each of those years.