Parliamentary questions
James Kelly
833 questions tabled in the Scottish Parliament, most recent first.
25 Jan 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it conducts privacy impact assessments when developing major policies and, if so, whether these assessments examine the effect of policy on the number of nuisance calls received by homeowners.
Answer · John Swinney: Privacy impact assessments (PIA) are used in the Scottish Government to identify and manage privacy risks of new projects and policies, often as part of the normal project and risk management process. No formal record is automatically kept linking changes to …
11 Jan 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what impact the proposal in the Draft Budget 2016-17 to reduce the fuel poverty/energy efficiency budget by 13% will have on its ability to meet its statutory fuel poverty and climate change reduction targets.
Answer · Margaret Burgess: The Scottish Government has not proposed to reduce the domestic energy efficiency budget by 13% in 2016-17. In the budgets that we have under our control, we have broadly maintained the expenditure available for fuel poverty and energy efficiency in what is a…
11 Jan 2016 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what changes in domestic energy efficiency are needed for its climate change reduction targets to be met.
Answer · Margaret Burgess: Scotland is on track to meet its statutory 2020 target of a 42% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions. The Climate Change (Scotland) Act does not set sector specific targets, allowing for abatement to be delivered where it is most cost effective to do so acro…
14 Dec 2015 · Portfolio Question
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to ensure that its obligations under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009 are being met.
20 Nov 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what work it is carrying out on reducing the incidence of stillbirth and infant death.
Answer · Maureen Watt: The Scottish Government is committed to reducing the stillbirth and infant mortality rate in Scotland with a number of initiatives underway to help achieve this, including the Scottish Government funded Maternity and Children’s Quality Improvement Collaborati…
20 Nov 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government how much funding it provides toward (a) researching and (b) reducing the incidence of stillbirth and infant death and what plans it has to provide additional support.
Answer · Maureen Watt: The Scottish Government is committed to reducing the stillbirth and infant mortality rate in Scotland with a number of initiatives underway to help achieve this, including the following: The Scottish Government funded Maternity and Children’s Quality Improve…
16 Nov 2015 · General Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will provide an update on the action it is taking to tackle the reported shortage of GPs.
9 Nov 2015 · General Question
To ask the Scottish Government what consideration it has given to calling in the planning application relating to the Whitehill incinerator.
26 Oct 2015 · Portfolio Question
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to protect jobs at the Dalzell and Clydebridge steel plants.
19 Oct 2015 · General Question
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to protect steel jobs at Clydebridge and Dalzell.
12 Oct 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister was aware that the amount of Scottish Government grant provided to DF Concerts in relation to T in the Park 2015 was agreed before a formal application was discussed and submitted when she considered the complaint by Willie Rennie MSP against the Cabinet Secret…
Answer · Joe FitzPatrick: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-28002 on 10 November 2015. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentary…
12 Oct 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister was informed that DF Concerts had told the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs that consideration was being given to reducing the event to “single-day, single-stage events, possibly in a city such as Glasgow” or “to move the festival away…
Answer · Joe FitzPatrick: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-28002 on 10 November 2015. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentary…
12 Oct 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister knew that the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs was aware of the profits from previous T in the Park festivals before the decision was made to approve a grant to DF Concerts when she considered the complaint by Willie Rennie MSP against…
Answer · Joe FitzPatrick: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-28002 on 10 November 2015. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentary…
12 Oct 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister was aware of the profitability of T in the Park when she considered the complaint by Willie Rennie MSP against the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs under the Scottish Ministerial Code.
Answer · Joe FitzPatrick: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-28002 on 10 November 2015. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentary…
12 Oct 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister had seen a breakdown of how Scottish Government funding for T in the Park 2015 would be spent before it was approved.
Answer · Joe FitzPatrick: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-28002 on 10 November 2015. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentary…
12 Oct 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister was aware that, apparently, neither the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs nor anyone from her office had read the full economic report commissioned by DF Concerts in relation to T in the Park 2015 or verified the briefing figures with t…
Answer · Joe FitzPatrick: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-28002 on 10 November 2015. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentary…
12 Oct 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister had seen the economic impact assessment commissioned by DF Concerts when she considered the complaint by Willie Rennie MSP against the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs under the Scottish Ministerial Code.
Answer · Joe FitzPatrick: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-28002 on 10 November 2015. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentary…
12 Oct 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister was aware of any member of her staff who might be close to Jennifer Dempsie and was involved in her consideration of any of the issues relating to T in the Park 2015 when she considered the complaint by Willie Rennie MSP against the Cabinet Secretary for Cultur…
Answer · Joe FitzPatrick: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-28002 on 10 November 2015. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentary…
12 Oct 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister was informed that the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs had had no relationship “as a friend or anything like that” (Official Report, c.13, 29 September 2015) with Jennifer Dempsie in the last six years when she considered the complaint…
Answer · Joe FitzPatrick: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-28002 on 10 November 2015. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentary…
12 Oct 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether the First Minister was aware that Jennifer Dempsie was part of the team who worked for DF Concerts preparing the planning application for T in the Park 2015 when she considered the complaint by Willie Rennie MSP against the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affai…
Answer · Joe FitzPatrick: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-28002 on 10 November 2015. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentary…
12 Oct 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the evidence by the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs to the Education and Culture Committee on 29 September 2015 (Official Report, c.11), whether the First Minister was aware of the cabinet secretary's meeting with Jennifer Dempsie and Geoff Ellis of…
Answer · Joe FitzPatrick: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-28002 on 10 November 2015. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at:http://www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentary…
12 Oct 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government what the First Minister understood was the basis for the Scottish Government grant to DF Concerts in respect of T in the Park 2015 when she considered the complaint by Willie Rennie MSP against the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe and External Affairs under the Scottish Ministerial …
Answer · Joe FitzPatrick: As set out in a letter to Willie Rennie MSP on 3 September 2015, having carefully considered the matter, including taking advice from the Permanent Secretary, the First Minister is satisfied that the decision taken by the Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Europe…
21 Sep 2015 · Portfolio Question
To ask the Scottish Government for what reason it provided financial assistance to T in the Park 2015.
7 Sep 2015 · General Question
To ask the Scottish Government what action it is taking to address the reported shortage in the number of GPs.
31 Aug 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government whether it will present the results of the NHS national review of out-of-hours services to the Parliament.
Answer · Shona Robison: The Chair of the National Review of Primary Care Out of Hours Services will present his findings and recommendations to me in the autumn. The Review process, since its establishment in February 2015 has been fully inclusive throughout with public, professiona…
31 Aug 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government when it expects the findings of the NHS national review of out-of-hours services to be published.
Answer · Shona Robison: Sir Professor Lewis Ritchie is due to submit his findings and recommendations from the National Review of Primary Care Out-of-Hours Services to the Cabinet Secretary for Health, Sport and Wellbeing in autumn 2015.
31 Aug 2015 · Portfolio Question
To ask the Scottish Government what the implications are of a curtailed timetable for consideration of the Scottish Budget.
27 Aug 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S4F-02752 by Nicola Sturgeon on 30 April 2015 (Official Report, c.10), whether it considers a second referendum to be inevitable, and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.
Answer · John Swinney: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-25269 on 6 May 2015. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at: www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28…
27 Aug 2015 · Written Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answers to questions S4W-25269 by John Swinney on 6 May 2015 and S4F-02752 by Nicola Sturgeon on 30 April 2015 (Official Report, c.10), whether it can confirm that it remains its position that, as set out at page 556 of its white paper on independence, the referendum was …
Answer · John Swinney: I refer the member to the answer to question S4W-25269 on 6 May 2015. All answers to written parliamentary questions are available on the Parliament’s website, the search facility for which can be found at: www.scottish.parliament.uk/parliamentarybusiness/28…
26 Aug 2015 · Portfolio Question
To ask the Scottish Government what progress it has made in introducing the living wage to public sector workers in Rutherglen.