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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 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

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Dates of parliamentary sessions
  1. Session 1: 12 May 1999 to 31 March 2003
  2. Session 2: 7 May 2003 to 2 April 2007
  3. Session 3: 9 May 2007 to 22 March 2011
  4. Session 4: 11 May 2011 to 23 March 2016
  5. Session 5: 12 May 2016 to 5 May 2021
  6. Current session: 12 May 2021 to 2 April 2025
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Question reference: S2W-09297

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 12 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug offences were committed in each of the last five years, broken down by sheriff court district.

Question reference: S2W-09491

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 30 June 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 12 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S1W-16169 by Mr Jim Wallace on 14 June 2002, how many crimes and offences involving firearms were recorded in each of the last five years.

Question reference: S2W-09300

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Frank McAveety on 8 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the net expenditure on public libraries was in each of the last three years, broken down by local authority.

Question reference: S2W-09298

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Frank McAveety on 8 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many (a) domestic and (b) overseas tourists have visited Scotland in each of the last three years, broken down by tourist board area.

Question reference: S2W-09026

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 15 June 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 8 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what the cost was of bank and agency nurses for (a) 1999-2000, (b) 2000-01, (c) 2001-02, (d) 2002-03 and (e) 2003-04, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-09292

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 7 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how much capital debt is owed by each local authority, expressed as also per capita.

Question reference: S2W-09306

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 23 June 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 6 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what percentage of all victims of sexual assault in each of the last five years was children.

Question reference: S2W-09191

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, with reference to the key messages of Final Consensus Statement of the Royal College of Physicians' Consensus Conference on Hepatitis C, which patient groups currently have access to treatment for hepatitis C infection and which do not and what the reasons are for any difference in such access.

Question reference: S2W-09195

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many hepatitis C patients there have been in (a) Scotland as a whole and (b) each NHS board area in (i) 1999-2000, (ii) 2000-01, (iii) 2001-02, (iv) 2002-03, (v) 2003-04 and (vi) 2004-05 to date.

Question reference: S2W-09189

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Friday, 18 June 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 1 July 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what its position is on the first key message of Final Consensus Statement of the Royal College of Physicians' Consensus Conference on Hepatitis C that “the hepatitis C epidemic is a public health crisis”.