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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

Urgent Questions aren't included in the Question and Answers search.  There is a SPICe fact sheet listing Urgent and emergency questions.

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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 16 March 2025
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Question reference: S2W-07499

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 08 April 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 10 May 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many drug-assisted sexual assaults took place in each regional police area in the last year.

Question reference: S2W-07500

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 08 April 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 10 May 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive whether it has any plans to reduce the availability of gamma hydroxybutyrate to the general public.

Question reference: S2W-07498

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 08 April 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Hugh Henry on 10 May 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what steps it is taking to reduce the number of drug-assisted sexual assaults.

Question reference: S2W-07401

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Thursday, 01 April 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Colin Boyd on 4 May 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive, further to the answer to question S2W-7083 by Colin Boyd QC on 31 March 2004, how many legal staff have been employed in the Crown Office in each year since 1999 and how many such staff have been employed in the (a) Criminal Confiscation Unit and (b) Civil Recovery Unit since their inception.

Question reference: S2W-07367

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 March 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 30 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive when it intends to expand the free central heating programme to include people over 80 who have partial or inefficient central heating already installed in their homes.

Question reference: S2W-07370

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 March 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 28 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many council properties in (a) West Dunbartonshire and (b) Argyll and Bute have no central heating or only partial central heating systems.

Question reference: S2W-07368

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 March 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 28 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive what mechanisms it has in place to ensure that pensioners, whose homes are damaged by central heating installation engineers contracted by Eaga Partnership Ltd under the free central heating programme, receive compensation for that damage.

Question reference: S2W-07369

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Wednesday, 31 March 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Mary Mulligan on 28 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how much has been allocated to (a) West Dunbartonshire Council and (b) Argyll and Bute Council to install central heating systems in council-owned houses for each year since the start of its central heating installation programme.

Question reference: S2W-07346

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 March 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 27 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how many people are serving a prison sentence for sexual offences.

Question reference: S2W-07348

  • Asked by: Jackie Baillie, MSP for Dumbarton, Scottish Labour
  • Date lodged: Tuesday, 30 March 2004
  • Current Status: Answered by Cathy Jamieson on 26 April 2004

To ask the Scottish Executive how it is addressing the issue of sex offenders in the consultation on reducing reoffending in Scotland.