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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 20 April 2025
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Question reference: S3W-10632

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 03 March 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 19 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive under what legislation a minister can seek to instruct a non-departmental public body on the basis of a telephone call in which the minister has neither sought nor received formal advice prior to making the call, showing the relevant section of such legislation.

Question reference: S3W-10633

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Monday, 03 March 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 19 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it is standard procedure not to take minutes of conversations between the Minister for Environment and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency in relation to any planning application.

Question reference: S3W-10032

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 18 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will detail each occasion on which the Minister for Community Safety made use of the Government Car Service during (a) October, (b) November and (c) December 2007.

Question reference: S3W-10666

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 March 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether a minister meeting one developer to the exclusion of another in the minister’s constituency and then supporting that planning application to the detriment of the other developer constitutes a breach of paragraph 6.11 of the Scottish Ministerial Code.

Question reference: S3W-10664

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 March 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether ministers take into account whether developers have donated money to their campaign or political party when choosing to publicly support a planning application.

Question reference: S3W-10665

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 March 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether ministers are debarred from taking an active part in supporting a live planning application to the potential exclusion of another developer when the former has donated money to their campaign or political party.

Question reference: S3W-10663

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 March 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive how, in the context of paragraphs 6.7 to 6.12 of the Scottish Ministerial Code, the Minister for Community Safety differentiated between the interests of two competing developers in Aviemore.

Question reference: S3W-10668

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 March 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether a minister seeking to accelerate or facilitate a live planning application without a satisfactory flood risk assessment and without speaking to objectors to that application constitutes a breach of the paragraph 6.11 and 6.12 of the Scottish Ministerial Code.

Question reference: S3W-10667

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 04 March 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by Michael Russell on 17 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether a minister attending a meeting to consider a live planning application with the planning authority in the company of the convener of another planning authority about to call-in that application, if that minister did not also seek to meet other developers or objectors with an interest in the decision, constitutes a breach of paragraphs 6.11 and 6.12 of the Scottish Ministerial Code.

Question reference: S3W-10031

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 20 February 2008
  • Current Status: Answered by John Swinney on 14 March 2008

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it will list all the official engagements which were undertaken by the Minister for Community Safety during (a) October, (b) November and (c) December 2007.