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Parliamentary questions can be asked by any MSP to the Scottish Government or the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body. The questions provide a means for ��˿�� 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

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Question reference: S4T-01130

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 28 September 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 29 September 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what its position is on the option of allowing mixed-sex couples to form civil partnerships.

Question reference: S4W-27410

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 09 September 2015
Current Status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 25 September 2015

To ask the Scottish Government how the pilot library card scheme for children is being progressed, and whether the Improvement Service will administer this through the National Entitlement Card.

The ‘Every Child is a Library Member’ pilots are being administered by individual local authorities in partnership with the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC). SLIC provides advice to local authorities and supports improvements in public libraries through the Public Library Improvement Fund provided by the Scottish Government. Local authorities are trialling various methods of distributing the library membership, including at the birth registration, via Bookbug packs and during Primary 1. There is no intended Scottish Government specific link with the National Entitlement Card.

Details of individual projects can be found on the SLIC website:

Question reference: S4O-04631

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 16 September 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 24 September 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what work it has undertaken in the last year on the currency options for Scotland, either in the current constitutional context or in the future.

Question reference: S4W-26058

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 10 June 2015
Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 23 June 2015

To ask the Scottish Government when it will publish an analysis of the responses to the consultation on the proposed amendments to the National Health Service Central Register (Scotland) Regulations 2006, and whether it plans to implement the proposed amendments.

Question reference: S4W-25636

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 5 June 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the implications for the environment of linking restoration of open cast coal sites to further extraction of coal at or adjacent to derelict open cast coal mines.

Question reference: S4W-25635

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 5 June 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the risks to (a) the environment and (b) local communities of any further collapse in the open cast coal industry.

Question reference: S4W-25638

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 5 June 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what assessment it has made of the implications of the proposed carbon price support exemption for restoration-related coal in relation to (a) state aid and (b) competition laws.

Question reference: S4W-25637

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 May 2015
Current Status: Answered by Fergus Ewing on 5 June 2015

To ask the Scottish Government what its definition of brownfield sites is in the context of open cast coal and what the reasons are for its position on this matter.

Question reference: S4T-01049

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Monday, 01 June 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 2 June 2015

To ask the Scottish Government how it is responding to the “serious risk” of “international disrepute” if it continues to miss annual climate change targets.

Question reference: S4O-04424

Asked by: Patrick Harvie, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Green Party
Date lodged: Thursday, 28 May 2015
Current Status: Taken in the Chamber on 4 June 2015

To ask the Scottish Parliamentary Corporate Body whether its practices comply with the Open Data Strategy published by the Scottish Government and what action it will take to address the issues that it raises.