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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 12 January 2025
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Question reference: S2W-29124

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 17 October 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 14 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-28424 by Nicol Stephen on 6 October 2006, what total amount of public funds was specifically provided by Scottish Development International and its predecessors to inward investment projects in each year since 1996, broken down by local authority area.

Question reference: S2W-29221

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 23 October 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Andy Kerr on 6 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the average waiting time has been for an appointment with a psychologist in each year since 1999, broken down by NHS board.

Question reference: S2W-28734

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 September 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 6 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what arrangements have been put in place to facilitate contact with, and supply of information between, the public in rural areas and the contractors which carry out trunk road maintenance and winter services.

Question reference: S2O-10848

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 October 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Lewis Macdonald on 26 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many additional community and residential care places it plans to create in the next four years to help people with alcohol and other addictions.

Question reference: S2W-28732

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 September 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 25 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive when it will announce the distribution of money from the Rural Transport Fund for 2006-07 and what the indicative allocation figures are for (a) 2007-08 and (b) 2008-09.

Question reference: S2W-28733

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 28 September 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tavish Scott on 25 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how much funding was made available to Scottish Borders Council from the Rural Transport Fund in each financial year since 1999-2000 and how much will be made available for 2007-08 and any future years for which figures are known.

Question reference: S2W-27953

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 24 August 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 18 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many ministerial visits to the Scottish Borders are (a) scheduled and (b) under consideration to take place prior to the 2007 dissolution of the Parliament by the (i) Deputy First Minister and Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning, (ii) Deputy Minister for Education and Young People, (iii) Minister for Environment and Rural Development, (iv) Deputy Minister for Finance and Public Service Reform and Deputy Minister for Parliamentary Business and (v) Minister for Transport.

Question reference: S2W-27954

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 24 August 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 18 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many ministerial visits to the Scottish Borders have been made in each year since 1999 by (a) Robert Brown MSP, (b) Ross Finnie MSP, (c) George Lyon MSP, (d) Euan Robson MSP, (e) Tavish Scott MSP, (f) Iain Smith MSP, (g) Nicol Stephen MSP and Jim Wallace MSP.

Question reference: S2W-28424

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Monday, 18 September 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 6 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what the total amount of inward investment has been in (a) the Scottish Borders and (b) each local authority area in each year since 1996, expressed also on a per capita basis.

Question reference: S2W-28281

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 12 September 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Nicol Stephen on 6 October 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many retail shop closures there have been in the Scottish Borders in each year since 1999 and what the estimated year-on-year economic losses have been to local communities as a result of these closures.