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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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  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 July 2025
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Question reference: S2W-29842

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 22 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether any of its external consultants will be used to validate offence ground referral datasets produced by the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration.

Question reference: S2W-29850

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 22 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what information it has on possible sales of children’s hearing centre premises by the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration to address a financial shortfall resulting from the decision of Scottish ministers to refuse a request for £20 million of additional funding to support its front-line services.

Question reference: S2W-29852

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 14 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Robert Brown on 22 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how many children, who would previously have been dealt with by a children’s hearing panel, it estimates will not now be dealt with as a result of the decision by the Principal Reporter of the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration to prioritise cases by risk, in light of the decision of Scottish ministers to refuse a request for £20 million of additional funding to support its front-line services.

Question reference: S2W-29659

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what representations it has made to the Ministry of Defence in respect of a medal for Arctic convoy survivors and whether it considers that the Artic Convoy Badge is an appropriate recognition of the bravery of the men and women on those convoys.

Question reference: S2W-29656

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has a budget allocation for commemorating Scotland’s war veterans and, if so, what this has been in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-29658

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it can commission any medal in respect of the Scottish Arctic convoys and, if so, whether it will consider commissioning such a medal.

Question reference: S2W-29657

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 07 November 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Malcolm Chisholm on 21 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive how much it has spent on recognising war veterans in each year since 1999.

Question reference: S2W-29141

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 18 October 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Tom McCabe on 17 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-27954 by Mr Tom McCabe on 18 October 2006, whether the answer indicates that it has recorded no dates for ministerial visits to the Scottish Borders 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 (h) Jim Wallace MSP.

Question reference: S2W-29153

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 19 October 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 15 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it provided the funding for the recent cull of 18,000 partridges in East Lothian following an outbreak of Newcastle disease and, if so, what the cost was of the cull.

Question reference: S2W-29154

  • Asked by: Christine Grahame, MSP for South of Scotland, Scottish National Party
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 19 October 2006
  • Current Status: Answered by Ross Finnie on 15 November 2006

To ask the Scottish Executive what concerns it has in respect of the welfare standards of commercially reared game birds and the spread of Newcastle disease when birds are reared in close proximity, in light of the recent cull of partridges in East Lothian following an outbreak of the disease.